1. WHERE DID WE COME FROM?

2. Folk Stories
Mesopotamia:
Gods fighting
Made from blood
Serve victors

3. India:
Gods sacrifice giant (Purusha)
Created man – caste system

4. Western Asia
Bible: Genesis
6 days
God’s image
Above all else

5. Evolution Mid 1700s – scientists saw similarities between species
Studied metamorphosis
Breeding
Charles Darwin – early 1800s
Related vs. separate creatures
Natural selection
Survival based on ability to live in the environment
Not based on morals/ethics

7. Hominid Walk up right Discoveries throughout world:
Skulls, burial grounds
Leakey’s in Tanzania (E. Africa) 1974
Foot prints – ape-like, but walked upright
Opposable thumbs
1.75M years old

8. Lucy in Ethiopia 1974
Donald Johanson
Complete skeleton
3.5M years old

10. Homo Sapiens Sapiens Human wise wise 120k yrs ago South Africa
Skulls like ours
Modified brain structure

11. 7 characteristics of man:
Survived among all other 5m years of hominids
Migrated
Temporary settlements (bases for hunting and gathering)
Stone tools with improvements
25K BCE – cave paintings and stone sculptures
More sophisticated language
10-15K BCE domesticated plants and animals: agriculture developed

12. Why are artifacts found across the globe?
1) Evolved independently in each area
2) Evolved in 1 area and migrated
Response to ecological changes
Adapted to areas that they moved to

13. Where were the early people?
Africa: Nile
China: Huang He
India: Indus
Western Asia/Mesopotamia: Tigris and Euphrates
Central America/Mexico
Peru

14. Rivers, warm (equator), fertile earth

15. Why move? Gatherers – farming Hunters – domestication
Growing populations: permanent settlements
Specialization
Trade
Weather patterns

16. Adaptations Climate Available resources Growing populations
Food sources
Water

17. Stone Age Fire Tools Language Paleolithic: 2.5m to 8000 BCE
Neolithic: BCE
Polished stone tools
Pottery
Agriculture

18. Agrarian Societies Crash Course
Guns, Germs and Steel Episode 1