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Do-now What sort of dangers might exist if you have to constantly move from place to place in order to survive?
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Paleolithic Era The Old Stone Age
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Nomads People who move from place to place hunting and gathering for food.
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Ancient burials Paleolithic people buried their dead with their tools and weapons.
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Technology Skills and tools used to meet a person’s basic needs
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First People Anthropologists believe that the earliest people lived in East Africa.
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Mary and Louis Leaky These two anthropologists found bone fragments in East Africa, the oldest human remains ever found
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Donald Johanson Found a hominid (humanlike primate) in East Africa
He named it Lucy
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The Neolithic Revolution
People begin to plant and domesticate animals
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The Neolithic Era The New Stone Age
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Farming New technologies are developed
Most farmers are subsistence farmers A subsistence farmer is a farmer that grows only enough for himself and his family.
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Domesticate Wakeup!-
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Villages develop As more and more food is grown some people can begin to concentrate on other skills like building homes.
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More Food = MORE PEOPLE!!!
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Civilizations develop
Early civilizations develop along river valleys Fertile soil
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Bering Strait During the Ice Age people migrated (nomads) across the Bering Strait into North America.
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Do-now Start Up: List 3 aspects of life during Paleolithic Times-
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TEST- CHAPTER 1= Friday 9/18
How will you study?
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Animism Belief that spirits live in animals, dreams and objects.
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Cultural Diffusion Exchange of ideas, customs and technologies.
Three ways this takes place 1. WAR ___________ 2. TRADE _________ 3. MIGRATION______
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What makes humans “civilized?”
What makes a civilization a civilization?
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Are you “civilized?”
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Features of Civilization WEB
Section 3- Chapter 1
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Civilization? 1. Cities
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Civilization? 2. Central Government
Single rulers and a council of elders Bureaucracy develops
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Civilization? 3. Traditional Economy farming
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Civilization? 4. Organized Religion
Polytheistic – believe in more than one god
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Civilization? 5. Job Specialization Artisans: skilled craft worker
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Civilization? 6. Social Classes Rulers Priests Warriors Peasants
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Civilization? 7. Art & Architecture
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Civilization? 8. System of Writing
Pictograms: drawing used to represent a word Scribes: specially trained person who knew how to read, write and keep records
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REVIEW
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CULTURE A way of living- “A blueprint for living”
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Traditional Societies
Social activities and beliefs that derive from past experiences This occurs in isolated societies
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Evaluate your first two weeks of HS
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