1. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
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 1, 3, 5th Periods: Which of these developments would you say was the most significant advance in the pre-historic (before written languages) period?
Fire-
Tools-
Farming-
Give a reason for your choice.
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

2. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.1 What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

3. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.1 What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

4. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.1 What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

5. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.1 What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

6. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.2 What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture and what were the early patterns of human migration?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

7. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.2 What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture and what were the early patterns of human migration?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

8. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.2 What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture and what were the early patterns of human migration?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

9. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
1.2 What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture and what were the early patterns of human migration?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

10. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.1 What were the main features of civilization as a form of human organization?
1. Economic surplus
2. Formal government
3. Written language
4. Developing urban centers
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

11. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.2 What did the river valley civilizations have in common?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

12. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.2 What did the river valley civilizations have in common?
Mesopotamia:
Sumer-
cuneiform-
Ziggurats-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

13. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.2 What did the river valley civilizations have in common?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

14. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.2 What did the river valley civilizations have in common?
Mesopotamia:
Sumer-
cuneiform-
Ziggurats-
Akkadian-
code of laws-
Babylon-
Hammurabi-
Assyria-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

15. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.2 What did the river valley civilizations have in common?
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

16. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.3 How did Mesopotamian and Egyptian political structures compare?
Egypt-
Pharaoh-
Pyramids-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

17. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.3 How did Mesopotamian and Egyptian political structures compare?
Egypt’s Nile river valley
Strong monarch from the military class-
Distinct levels of class (hierarchy of status) below
Powerful religious leader status-
Codified law
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18. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.4 How did Mesopotamian and Egyptian religions compare?
Polytheism-
animism-
Monarchy supported by the gods-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

19. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.5 Why do we know less about Harappan civilization than about Egypt?
Aryan Migration-
Harappa-
Arrival of Aryans:
Hinduism:
Buddhism:
Mauryan and Gupta empires:
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

20. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.5 Why do we know less about Harappan civilization than about Egypt?
"India's Caste System." 1- 2- 3- 4- 5-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

21. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.6 How does early China illustrate the main features of river-valley civilizations?
Shang dynasty
Zhou dynasty
•Major schools of thought:
Confucianism-
Daoism-
Legalism-
•Qin and Han dynasties:
Qin dynasty-
Han dynasty-
"Analects of Confucius"
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

22. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.7 How did conditions in the Americas differ from those in Asia and north Africa during the formation of early civilizations?
Olmecs-
Chavin de huantar-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

23. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.7 How did conditions in the Americas differ from those in Asia and north Africa during the formation of early civilizations?
Olmecs-
Chavin de huantar-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations

24. Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600B.C.E.: Origins and Development
2.7 How did conditions in the Americas differ from those in Asia and north Africa during the formation of early civilizations?
Chavin de huantar-
Human Pre-history to Early Civilizations