Do-now What sort of dangers might exist if you have to constantly move from place to place in order to survive?

Paleolithic Era The Old Stone Age

Nomads People who move from place to place hunting and gathering for food.

Ancient burials Paleolithic people buried their dead with their tools and weapons.

Technology Skills and tools used to meet a person’s basic needs

First People Anthropologists believe that the earliest people lived in East Africa.

Mary and Louis Leaky These two anthropologists found bone fragments in East Africa, the oldest human remains ever found

Donald Johanson Found a hominid (humanlike primate) in East Africa He named it Lucy

The Neolithic Revolution People begin to plant and domesticate animals

The Neolithic Era The New Stone Age

Farming New technologies are developed Most farmers are subsistence farmers A subsistence farmer is a farmer that grows only enough for himself and his family.

Domesticate Wakeup!-

Villages develop As more and more food is grown some people can begin to concentrate on other skills like building homes.

More Food = MORE PEOPLE!!!

Civilizations develop Early civilizations develop along river valleys Fertile soil

Bering Strait During the Ice Age people migrated (nomads) across the Bering Strait into North America.

Do-now Start Up: List 3 aspects of life during Paleolithic Times-

TEST- CHAPTER 1= Friday 9/18 How will you study?

Animism Belief that spirits live in animals, dreams and objects.

Cultural Diffusion Exchange of ideas, customs and technologies. Three ways this takes place 1. WAR ___________ 2. TRADE _________ 3. MIGRATION______

What makes humans “civilized?” What makes a civilization a civilization?

Are you “civilized?”

Features of Civilization WEB Section 3- Chapter 1

Civilization? 1. Cities

Civilization? 2. Central Government Single rulers and a council of elders Bureaucracy develops

Civilization? 3. Traditional Economy farming

Civilization? 4. Organized Religion Polytheistic – believe in more than one god

Civilization? 5. Job Specialization Artisans: skilled craft worker

Civilization? 6. Social Classes Rulers Priests Warriors Peasants

Civilization? 7. Art & Architecture

Civilization? 8. System of Writing Pictograms: drawing used to represent a word Scribes: specially trained person who knew how to read, write and keep records

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CULTURE A way of living- “A blueprint for living”

Traditional Societies Social activities and beliefs that derive from past experiences This occurs in isolated societies

Evaluate your first two weeks of HS