1. Early Peoples through the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 1 Sections 1 & 2

2. A Brief Introduction

3. Pre-History Before Writing
Things DID happen – we just don’t have any written record of them.

4. The Stone Age…

5. The Real Stone Age Why is it called “the stone age”?
Their tools were made of… STONE
Divided into two major parts:
Old Stone Age = Paleolithic Age
New Stone Age = Neolithic Age

6. Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age)
2,500,000 to 8,000 BCE
Hunters-Gatherers: People who found all their food.
Nomads: People without a permanent home; in constant migration following food source.
Existence of modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

7. What caused the human migration from Africa throughout the globe?

8. Agricultural revolution
What Changed?
Someone, somewhere realized plants grow from seeds..
Use the seeds and you can CHOOSE where the plants grow!
Agricultural revolution

9. Agricultural Revolution
Agriculture = Farming
But… how can I have a permanent plant food source but still hunt for meat?
People also domesticated animals
Now they can stay in one, permanent location

11. Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
8,000 – 3,000 BCE
Permanent settlements
Agriculture
Animal domestication
Modern humans become only hominids on Earth.

12. Pros and Cons of a Settled (Permanent) Community
Common culture
Mutual Protection
Near farms
Grain and seed storage
Cons
Disease spreads more quickly among a dense population
More vulnerable to raiders and thieves
Suffer from natural disasters (drought, fire, floods)