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Unit 1: Early Civilizations: Beginnings

Unit 1: Early Civilizations: Beginnings. Mrs. Gosnell World Civilization. Early Civilizations. DO NOW: How do we know people lived thousands of years ago?? HW: Using the notes, create a drawing of a typical day of life in the Paleolithic Age. Early Civilizations.

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Unit 1: Early Civilizations: Beginnings

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  1. Unit 1: Early Civilizations: Beginnings Mrs. Gosnell World Civilization

  2. Early Civilizations • DO NOW: How do we know people lived thousands of years ago?? • HW: Using the notes, create a drawing of a typical day of life in the Paleolithic Age.

  3. Early Civilizations • AIM: How did the Neolithic Revolution change how civilizations develop? • Do Now: You were just stranded on a deserted island. What would be five items that you would bring? • Create a venn diagram comparing & contrasting the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age.

  4. AIM: Why did Hammurabi’s Code provide justice for Ancient Babylon? • Do Now:Agree or disagree – “an eye for an eye, a life for a life.” Explain. • HW: Create a set of ten laws, and their punishments for the classroom.

  5. Prehistory • Time period before written record • Archaeologist • Study of artifacts, manmade materials • Tools, weapons, and pottery • Anthropology • Study of fossils

  6. Prehistory • Two periods • Paleolithic Age • Old Stone Age • Neolithic Age • New Stone Age

  7. Paleolithic Age • Hunting • Primary source of survival • Nomad • Move from one place to follow animal herds • Weapons • Made of wood, stone, and bone • Easy to break

  8. Paleolithic Age • Communications • Sign language • Drawings on cave walls • Smoke signals • Limited verbal language • Fire • Most important discovery • Cook, light, warmth, protection

  9. Neolithic Age • Farming • Grow a food supply • Limited hunting • Villages • Primitive forms of government • Leaders emerge • Bronze • Stronger than earlier weapons • Alloy • Mix of copper and tin

  10. Neolithic Age • Pottery • Storage • Cooking • Developments • Wheel • Sail • Plow

  11. Neolithic Age • Domestication • Help in hunting • Food source • Protection • Barter • Exchange goods for goods • Early economics • Fostered communication and cooperation

  12. Early Civilizations

  13. Early Settlements • People settled in near water • Food supply • Drinking water • Catch fish • Hunt animals that drank the water • Transportation • Agriculture • Irrigation • Fertile Soil

  14. Early Civilizations • Written language • Tigris- Euphrates River Valley • Mesopotamia • Fertile Crescent • 1st alphabet created by the Phoenicians • Nile River Valley • Longest River in the world • Flows northward

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