1. Unit One, Day One Turn in Timeline project Quiz on map/timeline
Quiz on map/timeline
Reading on Paleolithic Era
Vocab Terms on Paleolithic Era
Notes on Paleolithic Era
Textbook worksheet, side one 
Turn in Timeline project
Objective: SWBAT identify at least five characteristics from the Paleolithic Era on a textbook worksheet.

2. Warm-up 1 Give the number (for A to D) South America
The Indian Ocean lies directly to the south of
The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south of
The Nile River is located in which continent?
Which came first: 1000 BCE or 2000 BCE? 2 6 4 5
2000BC

3. Unit One, Day Two Warmup Questions/Vocab Reading on Neolithic Era
Warmup Questions/Vocab
Reading on Neolithic Era
Vocab Terms on Neolithic Era
Notes on Neolithic Era
Textbook worksheet, side two 
What’s due:
Terms on Paleolithic Era
Objective: SWBAT identify at least five characteristics from the Neolithic Era on a chart.

4. Warm-up 2
The period of time before writing existed is called prehistory or paleolithic?
Early humans arose in East Africa or Northern Europe?
The scientific term for modern humans is homo sapiens or homo habilis?
Early humans lived in extended family groups called villages or clans?
Why were early humans nomadic?
Name 5 technologies developed by Early Humans.

5. Warm-up 2 answers
Why were early humans nomadic? They were searching for food, water, and shelter and following migrating animals.
Name 5 technologies developed by Early Humans. simple tools and weapons, oral language, clothing, fire, and cave art

6. Unit One, Day Three Warmup Questions Quiz on Paleo/Neolithic Eras
Warmup Questions
Quiz on Paleo/Neolithic Eras
Civilization Notes
Civilization Chart
Civilization Cut/Paste activity
Finish terms
Due:
Book worksheet, side 2
Terms on Neolithic Era
Objective: SWBAT identify at least five characteristics from the beginnings of civilizations.

7. Warm-up 3
Another name for the Neolithic Era is the Old Stone Age or the New Stone Age?
The Neolithic Era began when humans learned agriculture or how to domesticate or gather plants and animals?
Why were Neolithic humans able to settle in one place and build houses and villages?
Name five technologies developed during the Neolithic Era?
Name two Neolithic sites being studied by archaeologists today.

8. Warm-up 3 answers
Why were Neolithic humans able to settle in one place and build houses and villages? Since they could farm and domesticate animals they had a ready supply of food
Name five technologies developed during the Neolithic Era? agriculture, domesticated animals, weaving, pottery and advanced tools and weapons
Name two Neolithic sites being studied by archaeologists today. Jericho, Aleppo, Catal Hoyuk, and Stonehenge

9. Unit one, Day four
Unit Review
Beginning of “Mankind”movie, episode one
Objective: SWBAT use their resources in order to complete a unit review to prepare for tomorrow's test.

10. Warm-up 4
A complex society with cities, writing, government, religion, and advanced technology is called a culture or civilization?
What caused population to grow and trade to develop?
The earliest written languages developed from sounds or pictures?
Early civilizations learned how to make tools from bronze and iron or stone and wood?
City-states, kingdoms and empires are examples of job specialization or centralized governments?

11. Unit One, Day Five Unit one test Begin new Unit
Due:
Test Everything in packet is collected
Objective: SWBAT apply their knowledge of the Paleolithic Era, the Neolithic Era and early civilizations on a unit test.

12. Prehistory to Early Civilizations
Paleolithic Era
Civilization
Neolithic Era

13. Prehistory: The period of time before writing existed
It includes the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras

14. Paleolithic Era 2 million BCE to 8000 BCE
old stone age
lasted from the appearance of man until the development of agriculture (farming)

15. Where are the oldest remains of humans found?

16. East Africa

17. (Modern man) Emerged in Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago
Homo Sapiens
(Modern man) Emerged in Africa between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago

18. How did geography affect the lives of early humans?

19. Early humans were hunters and gatherers whose survival depended on the availability of wild plants and animals
They were nomadic (they migrated in search of food, water, and shelter).

20. They migrated from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas

21. Migration Out of Africa

22. What were the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies during the Paleolithic era?

23. Because they followed herds of animals they lived in temporary shelters (caves and tents).

24. Spent most of their time hunting or gathering food and water necessary for survival.

25. Lived in clans (extended family groups)

26. Technology:
The way people apply knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs.

27. What technologies were developed during the Paleolithic era?

28. simple tools and weapons (made of stone, wood, etc.)

29. oral (spoken) language

30. fire
clothes (from animal skins and grasses)

31. cave art

32. The Age of Cave Art

33. Neolithic Era 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE
New Stone Age
period of time that began when people took up farming (the Agricultural Revolution) and ended with the advent of civilization.
farming

34. Humans learned how to domesticate both plants and animals.

35. Domesticated (tamed) animals were penned or herded to provide a ready supply of meat, milk, fur,etc.
Domesticated pig
Wild boar

36. How did the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals promote the rise of settled communities?

37. People could settle in one place because they didn’t have to search for food, water and shelter.
Neolithic people in many parts of the world independently developed agriculture.

38. They built permanent dwellings and settled in small villages
The key invention that ushered in the Neolithic Age was farming. This invention fundamentally changed the fabric of Mesolithic society because people no longer had to spend all their time hunting, and they were less likely to go hungry when game was hard to find. Additionally, they could built much larger, more permanent dwellings and, perhaps most importantly, this was the first period that people had enough 'spare time' in which to innovate.

39. They spent less time searching for food and had some 'spare time' in which to innovate and create new technologies.

40. Migration into the Fertile Crescent

41. What technologies were developed during the Neolithic era?

42. agriculture
domesticated animals

43. advanced tools and weapons
Flint axe

44. pottery

45. weaving

46. How do we learn about prehistoric humans?

47. Archaeologists
Study past cultures by locating and analyzing human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts
Archaeologists study people of the past through the things they left behind.

48. Artifacts
Things made by people

49. Archaeologists apply scientific tests such as carbon dating to analyze fossils and artifacts.
The half-life of carbon 14 is 5730 ± 30 years, and the method of dating lies in trying to determine how much carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope of carbon) is present in the artifact and comparing it to levels currently present in the atmosphere.
Above is a graph that illustrates the relationship between how much Carbon 14 is left in a sample and how old it is.

50. Carbon 14 dating: used to find the age of organic materials.

51. The Ice Man

52. What Neolithic sites are being studied by archaeologists today?

53. TURKEY
Catal Hoyuk
Aleppo
FERTILE CRESCENT (in white)
Jericho
Aleppo and Jericho:
Two of the world’s earliest cities located in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East with rich soil for farming.

54. Aleppo
Why did they build this city on top of a hill?

55. Jericho
What’s Jericho famous for?

56. Catalhoyuk:
An example of a large Neolithic settlement currently under excavation in Anatolia (present- day Turkey)

57. Stonehenge
an example of an archaeological site located in England. It was begun during the Neolithic and completed during the Bronze Age.

58. Civilization Writing – record keeping
Advanced technology (metal tools, irrigation systems, architecture)

59. What is a civilization?

60. Civilization:
A culture with cities, writing (record keeping), centralized government, complex religion, specialized workers, and advanced technology.

61. How and Why Did Civilizations Begin?

62. What is the key feature to the emergence of civilization?

63. The growth of cities
The first revolution -- farming -- led to the SECOND GREAT REVOLUTION in history. This revolution also occurred in MESOPOTAMIA and was THE BIRTH OF THE CITY.
More people were located in clusters.
They had a somewhat stable supply of food and a roof to sleep under.
Tasks could become more specialized.
There was enough stability that a variety of arts could be produced.
People could think about trading with other regions.

64. What caused cities to grow?

65. Farming Technology
(better tools, plows, and irrigation) improved to the point that in fertile areas people were able to produce more food then they needed.
Over thousands of years farming technology improved to the point that in fertile areas humans were able to produce more food then they needed.

66. Agricultural Surplus Caused population to grow and trade to develop
(extra food)
Caused population to grow and trade to develop

67. What were the characteristics of early civilizations?

68. Characteristics of Early Civilizations
Cities
Writing – record keeping
Advanced technology (metal tools, irrigation systems, architecture)

69. Written Language/ Record keeping
Written language developed from pictures
Pictograms – earliest written symbols
Writing developed to keep records as government, religion, and trade got more complex. Almost all ancient civilizations came up with some form of writing.

70. The Development of Writing

71. Centralized Governments:
City-states, kingdoms, and empires
Power was often based on religious authority
Necessary to build and run large irrigation systems and other public works and to provide law and protection for the people.

72. Hereditary Rulers
Dynasties (ruling families) of Kings, Emperors or Pharaohs
Dynasty: ruling family

73. Written Law Codes
Ten Commandments
Code of Hammurabi

74. Job Specialization:
An abundant food supply allowed some people to become expert at jobs besides farming (artisans, scribes, and merchants)
Goldsmithing above; brick laying below. Development of Specialized Occupations Artisans, merchants, scribes, and government. Officials led to new skills and knowledge. New ideas came from people trading with other people from other places.

75. Scribes

76. peasants Rigid Class System
Very small upper class: king, nobles, priests
Small middle class: artisans, scribes, merchants
Huge lower class: peasant farmers and laborers
king priests
nobles
merchants
artisans
scribes
peasants

77. Slavery developed in most cultures

78. Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Practiced by most early civilizations

79. Temples

80. Metal Tools and Weapons
Bronze and iron
Bronze smelted from copper and tin
Egyptian Sword

81. The wheel and the sail allowed traders to transport more goods over longer distances.