1. 8/26 Place your phone in a wall pocket
Place your signed signature sheet in the “turn in” tray.
Place your writing notebook in the appropriate class period crate.
Although it lasted only 2 million years the Awkward Age was considered a hazardous time for most creatures.

2. Today’s AGENDA B-day Friday 8/26 A-day Thursday 8/25 6th @ 11:55
10:15
12:30
3:20
Essential Question: How did technological and environmental transformations affect the world during the foundational period (~ 8000 – 600 BCE)
Period 1 & Period 5 – 9:05 – 10:33
Period 2 & Period 6 – 10:40 – 12:14
Period 3 & Period 7 12:14 – [12:49 – 1:24] – 2:34
Period 4 & Period 8  – 2:41 – 4:15
AP Concept “Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth”

3. Why do we study history?
Why do we study history

4. History… What is History anyway?? Ok, so what’s prehistory?
How Do we know when things happened?
Calendars
“Zero”
AD,BC,BCE,CE, IDK, BFF???
Years and centuries

5. BC AD BCE CE c - circa C - century 299-200 199-100 99-0 0-99 100-199

6. PERIODIZATION Each period is defined by 3 conditions
A geographic component
Human Contact – increase/decrease
Change in civilization-contracts/expands
Parallel developments across globe

7. AP World History
Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E.
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.
Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450
Global Interactions, c to c. 1750
Industrialization and Global Integration, 1750 to 1900
Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c to the Present

8. Disagreement and “revisionist history”
History is incomplete
Selectivity
Bias, distortion, & drama
Sources
Primary
Secondary

9. Foundational Classical
CIVILIZATIONS
Egypt China Greece
3900bc bc bc bc bc bc
Mesopotamia India Israel

10. A new way of living FROM TO Agrarian and Pastoral societies
Hunter-Gatherers

11. ANCIENT PERIOD 4,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
Beginning -
Decline of Hunter/Gatherer
Advent of Domestication/Agriculture
Increase in Sedentary civilizations
Two Sub-periods
Neolithic “revolution”
Ancient River Valley Civ.
End
Rise of large, regional empires

12. c B.C.E.
c B.C.E.
c B.C.E.
c B.C.E.

14. Paleolithic Era -Hunting and gathering/foraging
Neolithic Era ~10,000 bce
Systematic Agriculture & Pastoralism
( farming & ranching) domestication of animals and plants
Sedentary lifestyle leads to personal property
End of day 1 along with trip to library

15. Hammurabi’s Code of Law

16. Hammurabi’s Code of Law

17. Egypt & Mesopotamia