Chapter 1: Toward Civilization Prehistory-3000 B.C.

1. Chapter 1: Toward CivilizationPrehistory-3000 B.C. Section 1: Understanding Our Past Section 2: The Dawn of History Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization

2. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • Summary: • Scientists and __________ study the past to see how early people ______

3. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • Human beings have always been interested about learning about the past • We know the first people lived more than ______years ago in __________ times

4. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • Prehistory-

5. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • __________ peoples had no cities, countries, or organized governments • About __________year’s ago, some people in different parts of the world invented writing • This event marked the beginning of human _______________

6. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • ________ is a science that helps us learn about the past • It is a study of how early people lived

7. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • Archaeologists are scientists that study ______ • ___________ are things such as tools, weapons, or __________, that early people left behind

8. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • By studying artifacts, archaeologists learn about the beliefs and actions of our ____________

9. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • _________ Like archaeologists, they study things that early people left behind

10. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • However, __________pay more attention to__________ artifacts such as letters and diaries • They use records to explain how events happened

11. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • __________ is the study of earth and its people • Geography and history are linked because geography shows how places influence the way people __________

12. Section 1: Understanding Our Past • Geographers ______________________________________ • They also study the __________ of goods and ideas

13. Section 1: Understanding Our Past

14. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Summary: • Old Stone Age (____________) people made __________ and learned skills to survive • The _____________(Neolithic) brought __________ and settled communities

15. Section 2: The Dawn of History • The earliest people lived during the _______________ • This period is also called the ___________ • The Old Stone Age began more than _____________ years ago

16. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Paleolithic people were __________ • ____________moved from place to place, hunting and ___________ food • They made simple tools and weapons from stone, bone, or wood • As time passed, they developed a _____________ language

17. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Paleolithic people developed ___________ beliefs • They thought the world was filled with ___________ • They also believed in life after death

18. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Old Stone Age people buried tools and weapons with their dead so that they had what they needed in the afterlife

19. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Around ______________., people made two very important discoveries • 1.) They learned to plant seeds to __________food • 2.) They learned to tame (______________) animals • These discoveries allowed people to __________________________________

20. Section 2: The Dawn of History • This change marked the beginning of the New Stone Age, or the _______________________

21. Section 2: The Dawn of History • Historians call these discoveries the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution because they changed the way people lived

22. Section 2: The Dawn of History • After the Neolithic _________________Revolution, there was more food to eat • With more food the _______________ increased

23. Section 2: The Dawn of History • People lived together in ___________ • These villages later led to the development of advanced societies called ______________

24. Section 2: The Dawn of History Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Age) 2,500,000 B.C. \ \ \

25. Section 2: The Dawn of History New Stone Age (Neolithic Age) 10,000 B.C.

26. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • Summary: • Civilizations share basic features • Contacts between civilizations brought _____________ change

27. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • By about 5,000 years ago, the first _______________ began to develop • Historians have found basic features common to most early civilizations: • Cities • Organized _______________ • Social __________

28. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • The most important feature of early civilizations was the rise of _________ • The first cities developed as people began to farm along _________________in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia

29. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • These river valleys provided: • Water • __________ (rich) soil • ______________

30. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • Farmers living in river valleys could produce extra food • More food helped the population to grow • As a result villages slowly grew into cities

31. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • All civilizations change as time passes • Civilizations change when the environment changes • [For example, when all wood in a forest has been cut, people must find new building materials]

32. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization • Civilizations also change through ___________________ • ______________is the sharing of ideas and technology • __________results from war, trade, and the migration of people

33. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization