Chapter One: Section Two World History Chapter One: Section Two

Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period 2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C. Prehistory – 2 eras Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period 2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C. New Stone Age / Neolithic Period 10,000 B.C. – 3,500 B.C. Similarities - In both periods people used stone tools Differences - New Stone Age – new skills and tech. that lead to changes in daily life

Early humans lived in the end of Old Stone Age Nomads – people who move from place to place to find food Lived in groups of 20 -30 Men – jobs Women – jobs Made tools out of bone, wood, stone Used fire for cooking and skins for clothing Development of language …

40,000 yrs. Ago people boated to SE Asia and Australia Religion? End of Old Stone Age/100,000 yrs., began burying their dead with great care How is this a sign of a belief in afterlife? Animism – belief that spirits reside in animals, objects, or dreams Cave drawings, deep in caves away from living areas – religious rituals

How would life be different for a person that lives in a settlement compared to a nomad?

Neolithic Revolution People began to be able to produce their own food No longer needed to search for food Could remain in one place year round Established first permanent villages Led to new technologies Why is it called a revolution?

Domestication – raise plants and animals in ways best for human use Realized seeds could be saved and planted Rounded up animals that they hunted

Did the Revolution happen everywhere around the world at the same time? China – 13,000 B.C. – dogs Western Asia – 8,000 – 6,000 B.C. goats, sheep, pigs Turkey and Africa domesticated cattle / S. America llama and alpacas, around the same time 10,000 B.C. – 6,000 B.C. Africa, SE Asia – yams China – millet and rice Central America and Mexico – squash, gourds Middle East – barley, chickpeas, peas, lentils, wheat After all this domestication – what life changes did people make?

First Neolithic Villages Catalhuyuk – Turkey – 7,000 B.C. 6,500 people three times bigger than Jericho Jericho – Israel – built 10,000 – 9,000 B.C. Few thousand people lived there – small Surrounded by a wall – What did that mean?

Gender Roles Work divided by gender Men dominated family, economic, political Also, heads of family Older men = Council of Elders Made important decisions – plant / harvest

Settlement Ability to accumulate possessions and differences in wealth appeared Farming – to be successful – needed new tech. Invented calendars – why?, Specialization in occupation – tools, weaving cloth from hair or vegetable fibers, clay pottery Again: Technologies not created everywhere at the same time – slowly traveled – thousands of years Some invented similar but separate showing diff. and sim.

By yourself: What is one invention you could not do without? How has it changed your life? If it was gone, how would your life be different? Be specific.