1. Get out your Do Now for CNN10
Happy Friday! 

2. CNN Student News K – What do you Know about the topic?
W- What do you Want to know?
L- What did you Learn?

3. Continents and oceans

7. CIVILIZATIONS “Started from the bottom now we here”

8. In your notes…
Answer these questions (Be ready to share your ideas out loud):
1. What is the difference between a primary source and secondary source?
2. What does it mean to be civilized?
3. What characteristics are necessary to be considered a civilization?

9. Create a T-Chart in your notes – also known as Cornell Notes
Terms Explanation
Ex: Civilization Must have people,
organization,
surplus of food

10. Paleolithic Age 2,500,000 BC-10,000 BC Early Stone Age
They were hunters and gatherers
Used tools such as axes, spears, bow and arrows, fishhooks
Men and women did both jobs
Made fire using flints, stones, and wood
Cave dwellers and nomads
Nomads – people who move from place to place in search of food

11. Neolithic Age 8,000 BC- 4,000 BC
They moved from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture
Planted crops and practiced domestication
Made tools for farming such as sickles and hoes
Used animals for milk, meat, clothing
Went from being
nomads to living in
villages, building
walls for protection,
creating armies
Domestication – to tame animals and grow plants for human use; encouraged permanent settlements

12. What pushed people to form civilizations?
Neolithic Revolution
Neo = New
Lithic = Stone

13. Cause and Effect?
Together: What caused the Neolithic revolution?
Independently: During the clip record 3 effects of the neolithic/agricultur al revolution.
Causes of the Neolithic Revolution – agriculture, domestication, protection, settlemets

14. Were the effects positive and/or negative?
Positive: bigger population, settlements, domestication of plants, change in farming, new tools, people in charge, farming, seed of civilization, property
Negative: more farmers = conflicts, enemies, warfare,
Positive
Negative

15. 7 characteristics of Early civilizations

16. Cities with public works
--Developed in river valleys because of the fertile soil where irrigations systems were placed
--Roads, bridges, and walls
What is an irrigation system?

17. --Leaders appointed by the gods or through family (Monarchy)
Government
--Leaders appointed by the gods or through family (Monarchy)
--Set up to regulate and oversee large-scale efforts to benefit the people
Monarchy – government ruled by a person who was born into power, king or queen
Why do we need government to function?

18. Religion --Monotheism = One god
--Designed to explain nature and their role in the world
--Monotheism = One god
--Polytheism = many gods (most common in ancient times)

19. --Ranked according to job
Social Structure
--Ranked according to job
Priests, Government officials, warriors
Farmers, Artisans, Craftsmen
Do we still see social structure today? HOW?
This will be a common theme discussed in our class
Slaves, Peasants, farmers

20. Writing --Used to keep records and for creative expression
--Multiple forms occurring in different places at the same time
Why would writing transform civilizations?

21. --Expressed talents, beliefs, and values
Art & Architecture
--Expressed talents, beliefs, and values

22. Job specialization
--Specialized in crafts, arts, metal works, bricklayers, soldiers, etc.

23. Culture is the way people live
Culture is passed down from one generation to the next.
Cultural diffusion: When characteristics or behaviors of one group of people spread to another.
Material culture includes: food, clothing, architecture, arts, music, crafts, and technology.
Nonmaterial culture includes religion, language, spiritual beliefs, family, employment, education, values, moral system, rituals and behaviors
Culture – a way of life; the way a group of people live
How do you think we will see cultural diffusion throughout world history? Predict ways this would occur. Does it still occur?

24. Change over time Have you changed over time?
Have you had new interactions with new people?
Cause and effect model
LANGUAGE = cultural diffusion
American Chinese food
Food/cooking

25. The BIG picture

26. The first Civilization: Mesopotamia The Land Between Two Rivers
Also known as the Fertile Crescent

27. Modern day IRAQ

28. The Mesopotamian Plain: The Fertile Crescent
The world's first cities arose in Sumer, a region in Mesopotamia.
The Sumerians created irrigation systems to water fields and
control floods.

29. The Remarkable Sumerians
By 3000 B.C., there were 12 great Sumerian cities with thousands of people.
These independent city-states were made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland.
Institutions: In the early city-state, religion and government were often combined.
The Sumerians made important advances in government, technology, and communication.