1. Ancient Civilizations PPT

2. Warm Up
Complete the mapping activity you picked up at the front of the room.

3. Timeline To the side of your notes, draw a timeline.
Draw a dot in the middle of your timeline and label it 0.
Label each side of the timeline BCE or CE.
Place the following events where they belong on the timeline: Invention of Agriculture (8000 BCE), Creation of the Printing Press (1450 CE), Invention of first writing system/Cuneiform (3000BCE), Beginning of World War I (1914)

4. Beginnings of Civilizations…
How do we tell what happened Prehistory?
Archeologists- look for clues (digs)
Anthropologists- study the culture
Paleontologists- Study fossils
Earliest known human remains come from Africa

5. Olduvai Gorge
Earliest record of human life is found in Olduvai Gorge

7. Out of Africa

8. Early Homosapiens Homo sapiens is the scientific name for modern man
Invention of tools, mastery of fire and the development of language improved human life
Early humans were nomads – people who wander from place to place with no permanent settlements
They were hunters and gatherers for their food
Made tools to help increase their food supply
Made cultural advances with necklaces, cave paintings, rock paintings and carving

9. Cave Art

10. Cave Art

11. Cave Art

12. Cave Art

13. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Prehistoric people began to develop crops that they could farm
No longer had to be nomads-people who wander from place to place with no permanent settlement
Become food producers instead of Hunter-gatherers

14. Neolithic Revolution
They also domesticated animals (it is thought the first animals were dogs)
Farmers kept advancing their Technology
Irrigation systems
This lead to a surplus of food
This lead to increased populations
Villages became larger and we began to see the first cities

15. Question
How would the development of farming affect the lives of humans? Write down 2 different possibilities and explain your answer.

16. Features of Civilization

17. 1) Developed Cities Main feature of a civilization
Political, economic, and cultural centers

18. 2) Organization and Government
Should meet the needs of the people
Powerful
Ruled by religious leaders, wealthy, or elders
Has specific duties
Gather taxes
Organize defenses

19. 3)Complex Religion Polytheistic (many gods) Monotheistic (one god)
Built temples, sacrificed animals, crops, and at times other humans
People worked as priests

20. 4) Job Specialization
Developed once people did not need to spend all of their time looking for food
Instead of doing many jobs “ok”, you do one job really well and do that for others
In turn, other people do the jobs that you may not be as good at

21. 5) Social Classes People become grouped in social classes
Social organization became more complex
Priests
Wealthy merchants
Artisans
Peasant farmers
Slaves

22. 6) Arts and Architecture
Expressed the beliefs and values of the society
Showed strength and power of the government
Sometimes meant to intimidate other groups or countries

23. 7) Public Works Projects that benefit the city
Irrigation systems (for water)
Roads
Bridges
Defensive walls

24. 8) Record Keeping and Writing
Began in temples with priests
Scribes- People who can read and write
Earliest writing made up of pictograms
Pictogram- Simple drawings that looked like the items they represented