1. Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization

2. Two Theories
Creationism - the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity or deities (often the Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam), whose existence is presupposed.
Evolution – the theory that all humans evolved from tiny microscopic organisms.
Scopes Monkey Trial

3. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Historians – study and write about the historical past
Artifacts – objects made by humans

4. The Study of Prehistory
What is Prehistory?
Archeologists-
Artifacts
Anthropologists-
Culture
Geologists-
Fossils
Carbon 14 Dating – Willard Libby

5. Discoveries in Africa and Beyond
Mary and Louis Leaky
Olduvai Gorge
Technology
Donald Johanson
Lucy
Early Hominid Groups
Australopithecines
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens

6. Section 2: The New Stone Age
Agricultural Revolution
Large game dies out
Food shortages, the development of farming
Animal domestication
Growth of villages
Division of Labor
Artisans
Trade – exchange of goods and services
Catal Huyuk -

7. Section 3: River Valley Civilizations
New Technology
Harnessing power
Domestic inventions
Metalworking
Bronze Age
5 characteristics of Civilization 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
Section 3: River Valley Civilizations

8. Birth Places of Civilizations
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
Commonalities – all located on or near rivers
Why?

9. The Formation of Classes
Religion
Theocracies
The Formation of Classes
Effects of division of labor
Social class – Ruler, Priests and Nobles, Merchants – Traders – Low government officials, Artisans and Shopkeepers, Unskilled laborers and farmers
Largest class –
Systems of writing