1. Welcome to World History
Key Questions:
How do people Learn about prehistory?
What do anthropologists think are the stages of human development?
How did early people live?

2. What do we do if we don’t have written records?
Pre-History: the time before writing
Archaeologist:
study past societies by examining the things people left behind (artifacts)
Fossils: remains of human, plants and animals that have become hard like stone
Anthropologists:
people who study the beginnings and developments of a group of people

3. Hominids Early Hominids
Name
Time Period
Characteristics
Australopithecus
4-5 million yrs ago
“southern ape”
Stood upright and walked on two legs
Homo-Habilis
2.4 million yrs ago
“handy-man”
Used for early stone tools
Homo-Erectus
2-1.5 million yrs ago
“upright man”
Learned to control fire
Migrated
Homo-Sapien
200,000 yrs ago
“wise man”
Migrated around the world
Used a wide range of tools
First Humans are believed to have originated from Africa.

4. The Journey Of Mankind

5. Paleolithic Era-the Old Stone Age
Hunters and Gatherers
Used simple tools and fire.
Development of a language
Creation of cave paintings and figurines
Burial of the dead

6. The Neolithic Era- The New Stone Age
Farming
Domestication of animals and plants
Settlement in villages
Increase in activities and trade
Differences in wealth
Pottery, weaving and the plow

7. The Neolithic Revolution
People gave up their nomadic ways and settled in communities
Domestication: the selective growing of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.

8. Civilizations relied on river valley for survival. Why?
River Valley’s
Civilizations relied on river valley for survival. Why?
Transportation, fertile soil, protection