Bell Work: Please log-on to your assigned computer. Visit the class wiki (chswhap.wikispaces.com) and click on the “Bell- Ringers and Agendas” page. Click on the hyperlink for the AP WORLD HISTORY PRE-TEST. Enter your first and last name and complete the test. Do the best you can, you have 20 minutes.

Activator: AP Pre-Test WOD - unconventional Vocabulary Acquisition Review: The Neolithic Revolution Pass/Fail Quiz #1 Collaborative Inquiry: Introducing GRAPES GRAPES Notes: Early Agricultural Societies (Jigsaw) Essential Question: What is a civilization and what are the defining characteristics of a civilization? Homework: Students will read their assigned section and complete GRAPES Organizer notes.

Which is an example of an unconventional tree house and which is a non-example? Explain why. Example vs. Non-example Aug 12, Block 3 Click HERE to see the world’s best tree house!HERE

The tree house on the right is actually a brewery from the television series Treehouse Masters! This makes it unconventional in comparison to the normal tree house on the left. Example vs. Non-example Aug 12, Block 3

Working with a partner, you have 5 minutes to complete both sides of the vocabulary acquisition worksheet.

Food Gathering  Mostly vegetable. 1 Sq. Mile for 2 people Tool Making  2 million to 4,000 years ago used stone tools (also bone and wood) Hunting: meat choppers  hand axes  Knives, spears, bows and arrows (7 hrs. every 3 days)

Gender Divisions Men  Hunting Women  Gathering Family Life: Size of clans people Two-parent family Why did this become necessary?

Why the shift? Domestication and Semi-cultivation New Technology: Slash-and-burn and swidden agriculture Why not call it the Neolithic Revolution?

Animal Domestication  Dog first, then sheep, goats, cattle, water buffalo, pigs Selective Breeding Mixed farming and herding  Largely determined by environmental factors

Why did so many adopt Agriculture? (Holocene) Why did others still reject agriculture? Pastoralism ruled in N. America, Australia, and Northern Eurasia Demographic Shifts: 2 million people 13,000 years ago, million people 7,000 years ago.

Benefits and Risks? Violent or peaceful process? Expansion = surpluses and slow rate Rise of Institutions  Nuclear families (no), kinship networks (yes)

Religion  Shift to focus on Earth Mother, Sky God, and ancestor cults Language  Likely necessitated out of trade (Similarity in language groups)

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What characteristics could we use to compare an Apple and an Orange? If we wanted to compare their appearance, would it be appropriate to say that one is orange and the other has a smooth, somewhat shiny appearance? Reorganize your groups into new categories using DIRECT comparisons. Remember, you must have at least 3 groups, and at least 2 artifacts in each group. If we wanted to compare two societies, what characteristics could we use?

Geography Religion Achievements Politics Economics Social Structure

1 st Block Mesopotamia (Ch. 2 pg )  Daelen, Shaelyn, Carmine, Sean, Natasha, Nathan, Robert Egypt (Ch.3 pg )  Kylie, Tamzen, Paisley, Courtney, Hunter, Justyce Indus Valley (Ch. 4 pg )  Austin, Emily, Summer, Andrea, Kailee, Cypris China (Ch. 5 pg )  Jasmine, Austin, Nick, Parker, Cyrus, Karlie