1. Neolithic Revolution River Valley Civilizations
Unit 2 Early Man
Neolithic Revolution
River Valley Civilizations

2. Section A – Neolithic Revolution
Pre-historic Man
- Locations
- Hunters/Gatherers
- Migration
2. Neolithic Revolution
- Define
- Results
1. Permanent Homes
2. Extra Time
3. Specialized Jobs
3. Organized Society (Civilization)
- Government
- Religion
- Trade
- Urban Setting (Cities)

3. 1st Civilizations Began
TIMELINE
“BC”
Herding & Farming
“AD”
Hunters & Gatherers
10,000 1
5,000
Neolithic Revolution
1st Civilizations Began

4. Map

5. Terms
Paleolithic Age: “Old Stone Age”; earliest period in human history – hunters and gatherers
Africa: Where earliest humans are believed to have lived
Hunting and Gathering: The way that early man got his food (their economic system)
Migration: Moving from one place to another
Neolithic: “New Stone Age”; the change from hunting and gathering to herding and farming

6. How the Neolithic Revolution worked:
Man stopped hunting and gathering and began farming and herding
People began to live in permanent homes
People had extra time to think new ideas
Specialized jobs created – someone could do one job really well then teach others
Communities began to grow and organize into civilizations
Things found in an organized society (a civilization!)
Organized Government
Organized economy
Urban setting (villages, towns, cities, etc….)
Writing systems / language

7. Essential Questions
What was the relationship between early people and the environment?
- People had to work all the time
a. Early people are closely linked to and very dependent on the environment
b. Man looks to the environment for food and shelter
c. Man learns how to master the environment to improve his life
Why did hunters and gatherers not have permanent homes?
- They had to follow the food supply
a. “On the move” (migratory)
b. Too busy following animals used for food (often moved)
What do you think were the factors that led to the Neolithic Revolution?
- Two things happened:
a. Man developed the ability to think about new ideas to help themselves
b. They accidentally discovered new ways to improve their lives
What are the changes that took place as a result of the Neolithic Revolution?
- People began to specialize and organize into communities, citizens, and civilization

8. Section B: River Valley Civilizations
Elements of a Civilization
a. Writing System
b. Organized Government
c. Organized Economy Based on Trade
d. Urban Setting
Locations
a. Nile
b. Tigris/Euphrates
c. Indus
d. Yellow/Huang He
Contributions
a. New Technologies
b. Writing Systems
c. Architecture
d. Organized Religions
e. Laws

9. Timeline BC AD
5500
5000
4500
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
500
Egyptian
Sumerian
Indian
Chinese

10. 4 Major Early River Valley Civilizations

11. Notes on Civilization
Civilization: Highly organized community with advanced elements of culture; politics, economy, art, etc……
Elements that define a civilization:
Organized Government (Written laws or rules, leaders, and protection aka “military” or “police”)
Organized Economy (Trade within a culture and with other cultures; Tokens to represent value or “money”; and a reliable food supply)
Writing System (Helps in communication; record keeping; and using symbols to represent ideas)
Urban Setting or Cities (Many “unrelated” people living together in one large planned community)

12. Nile River Valley / Egyptian Civilization
Leader called Pharaoh (King/God)
Built the Pyramids – tombs for the Pharaoh
Developed Hieroglyphics – pictured based writing system (Rosetta Stone – written in two kinds of Egyptian and Greek – helped to translate the hieroglyphics

19. Mesopotamian is Greek for “Land between the two rivers”
Tigris and Euphrates River Valley / Sumerian (Mesopotamian) Civilization
Mesopotamian is Greek for “Land between the two rivers”
Located in the Fertile Crescent
Developed Cuneiform – wedged shaped writing
Invented the wheel
First written set of laws: Code of Hammurabi

23. 13.  (There is no 13th Law because, then as now, the number 13 was considered to be an unlucky and evil number)
14.   If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
15.   If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death.
16.   If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death.
17.   If any one find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
18.   If the slave will not give the name of the master, the finder shall bring him to the palace; a further investigation must follow, and the slave shall be returned to his master.
19.   If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death.
20.   If the slave that he caught run away from him, then shall he swear to the owners of the slave, and he is free of all blame.
21.   If any one break a hole into a house (break in to steal), he shall be put to death before that hole and be buried.
22.   If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
23.   If the robber is not caught, then shall he who was robbed claim under oath the amount of his loss; then shall the community, and on whose ground and territory and in whose domain it was compensate him for the goods stolen.

24. Indus River Valley / Indian Civilization
Two cities - Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro – very well organized
Learned to weave cotton into cloth

25. Huang He River Valley / Civilization of China
Writing symbols represented whole ideas
Called themselves The Middle Kingdom, which is the belief that they were the center of the world (better than others / ethnocentric)

28. What these Civilizations contributed to our life:
New Technologies:
- Irrigation – getting water to crops
- Use of Money
- Use of metal – tools and weapons
Architecture:
- Functional and beautiful
- Used to praise gods and rulers
Organized Religions:
- Polytheism – belief in many gods
- Belief in an afterlife
- Developed rituals that we still use today
Laws:
- Hammurabi’s Code of Laws (1st written set of laws) came from the Babylonian’s – based on an “eye for an eye”
Writing Systems:
- First writing developed to record trading – greatly increased human intelligence

29. Essential Questions: How is a civilization different from a community?
- More organized laws, economy, religions, etc….
- Larger population
- Cities (made up of many communities of unrelated people)
What is the reason that the greatest early civilizations all developed in river valleys?
- Transportation (especially for trade)
- Food Supply
- Fertile soil (from annual flood)
- Water for irrigation
Why was the development of writing systems so important to the development of civilizations?
- Record keeping
- Communication – spread ideas
- Help organize – written laws
- Increase intelligence