History of the Ancient and Medieval World Prehistory: Culture and Civilization Walsingham Academy Mrs. McArthur Room 111

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Project*: Personalized Notebook Create a personalized cover using DTP*: (front, back, spine) for your history notebook. The components include: Personal information: your name, course title, school, year Visual Representation of each of the key themes presented in lecture (notes) and summarized on your handout. Each visual must have a clearly identifiable number. Key: identifying the visual representations by theme. Your choices should reflect our subject and if possible your interests. (Suggestion: look through the text for some ideas.) *(Rubric and Extra Credit details on handout.) Project Due Date: Friday, Sept. 3 *DTP = Desktop Publishing (Use Word or PowerPoint)

Making Connections-Sample 1 From the 2 activities: M&M theory of time management and History of the World in 7 Minutes, what conclusions do you draw about the period of time we will be studying in this course? Hint: Think in terms of amount of and pace of time.

Making Connections-Sample 2 Of the 7-minute History of the World, how many seconds/minutes represent time that will be covered in this course? Hint: Be sure to refer to the course description in the syllabus.

Making Connections-Sample 3 Why does the viewer of the 7-minute History of the World have to wait a couple of minutes before beginning a historical count down? Hint: Be sure to refer to the course description in the syllabus. The video offers its own explanation.

Student Sample Solution

Summary: 2 Versions of Historical Time Relative Time - The video helped us understand that the pace of change and information sped up with civilization. However, this view of time is not proportional-each division of “time” on the timeline is not of the same duration. In other words, man’s presence in the video is not proportional to his time on earth. Proportional Time - The M&Ms allowed us to see that man’s role in earth’s existence is both recent and a very small span of time compared with earth’s age - a matter of “chocolate dust.” With this view it is hard to see man’s accomplishments.

What is Culture*? 1.An integrated pattern of knowledge, behaviors, beliefs that is transmitted from one generation to the next - key part of defining what it means to be a human being. 2.The specific aspects of culture are shared by members of a human group-race, ethnicity, religious or political group. 3.Behaviors include: language, religion, beliefs and customs (traditions), lifestyle, art, technologies, etc. *Classroom Activity: 5 objects to identify and definitions of Social Scientists

Assignment 1 (1)Practice answering the questions (slides 5-7) about time. (2)Read Understanding Our Past (handout) (3)Read pp. 6-7 of text answering 3 questions posed on pp 7. (4)Define the Social Sciences – See list on following slide of PP show. (Use a dictionary or go on-line)

Social Sciences : Interdependent For each social science below, define by answering: What is it? Who does it? What do they do? Why do they do it? Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Geography (See text’s definitions.) (1) Psychology (2)Economics (3)Statistics (4)Sociology (5)Political Science In-Class Activity: Read text, pp. 8-10

Assignment 2 Read text, pp Define blue-bold terms. Read Photocopy: The Dawn of History Take a Virtual Field Trip to Lascaux, France Check it out! Project Due Date: Friday, September 3

Lascaux When and by whom were the caves discovered What period of culture do they reveal? What were the caves thought to be used for? When and why were the caves closed?

Fact File Approximately: –2,500,000 BCE - Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) –10,000 BCE - New Stone Age (Neolithic) –5,000 BCE - First Civilizations What conclusions can one draw from these dates? Anthropologists to have heard of: –Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) –Donald Johanson (“Lucy”) For transcript, see text, pp. 4

The Neolithic Revolution Some historians have argued that this step was the most significant stage in man’s evolution not rivaled until the Industrial Revolution. 1.How did the transition from nomadic life to one of permanent settlement take place? 2.Why was this role crucial to the emergence of civilization? For transcripts, see text, pp. 11 and 17

“Staging”: A Useful Tool It is really hard to summarize man’s long evolution. We surmise that: it was gradual but… it spread across the globe at different rates and in different ways at different times. Social Scientists learn about this long period using many indirect as well as direct methods.

Assignment 3 Read text, pp Identify the blue-bold terms. Auto-Test: Complete the chart on next slide. Project Due Date: Friday, September 3

Beginnings of Civilization Civilization’s basic features

Civilization From Latin root civ- (city, civic, citizen, civil) Cities emerged as result of the Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East about 5,000 years ago. The basic features of civilization are interlocking and mark all civilizations. How are “culture” and “civilization” related?

Assignment 4 Complete project (4 pages: cover, spine, back, key) Remember our discussion about technology and meeting deadlines! No Homework over Labor Day Weekend! First “Quest,” Wednesday, Sept 8!

Quest 1: Overview Note: Bring colored Pencils Historical Time: In what 2 ways might a historian express time? For what purpose(s.) What is culture? How is it spread-across time and place? Prehistoric Early Peoples: Paleolithic vs. Neolithic

Quest 1: Overview, cont. Inter-dependence of social sciences: (geography, history, anthropology, archaeology, political science, economics, statistics, psychology, sociology) What is civilization and how is it different from culture? 10 themes of history (project) Not on Quest