1. Chapter 1: Toward Civilization Prehistory-3000 B.C.
Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Section 2: The Dawn of History
Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization

2. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Summary:
Scientists and __________ study the past to see how early people ______

3. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Human beings have always been interested about learning about the past
We know the first people lived more than ______years ago in __________ times

4. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Prehistory-

5. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
__________ peoples had no cities, countries, or organized governments
About __________year’s ago, some people in different parts of the world invented writing
This event marked the beginning of human _______________

6. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
________ is a science that helps us learn about the past
It is a study of how early people lived

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Archaeologists are scientists that study ______
___________ are things such as tools, weapons, or __________, that early people left behind

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By studying artifacts, archaeologists learn about the beliefs and actions of our ____________

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_________ Like archaeologists, they study things that early people left behind

10. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
However, __________pay more attention to__________ artifacts such as letters and diaries
They use records to explain how events happened

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__________ is the study of earth and its people
Geography and history are linked because geography shows how places influence the way people __________

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Geographers ______________________________________
They also study the __________ of goods and ideas

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Archaeology
History
Geography
What is it?
Study of what happened and how people lived in the past
Study of Earth, people, & resources
Who does it?
Archaeologist
What do they do?
Study of artifacts, such as tools, weapons, clothing, pottery
Study where people lived and why they lived there
Why do they do it?
To learn how events happened

14. Section 2: The Dawn of History
Summary:
Old Stone Age (____________) people made __________ and learned skills to survive
The _____________(Neolithic) brought __________ and settled communities

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The earliest people lived during the _______________
This period is also called the ___________
The Old Stone Age began more than _____________ years ago

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Paleolithic people were __________
____________moved from place to place, hunting and ___________ food
They made simple tools and weapons from stone, bone, or wood
As time passed, they developed a _____________ language

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Paleolithic people developed ___________ beliefs
They thought the world was filled with ___________
They also believed in life after death

18. Section 2: The Dawn of History
Old Stone Age people buried tools and weapons with their dead so that they had what they needed in the afterlife

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Around ______________., people made two very important discoveries
1.) They learned to plant seeds to __________food
2.) They learned to tame (______________) animals
These discoveries allowed people to
__________________________________

20. Section 2: The Dawn of History
This change marked the beginning of the New Stone Age, or the _______________________

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Historians call these discoveries the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution because they changed the way people lived

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After the Neolithic _________________Revolution, there was more food to eat
With more food the _______________ increased

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People lived together in ___________
These villages later led to the development of advanced societies called ______________

24. Section 2: The Dawn of History
Old Stone Age
(Paleolithic Age)
2,500,000 B.C. \ \ \

25. Section 2: The Dawn of History
New Stone Age
(Neolithic Age)
10,000 B.C.

26. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization
Summary:
Civilizations share basic features
Contacts between civilizations brought _____________ change

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By about 5,000 years ago, the first _______________ began to develop
Historians have found basic features common to most early civilizations:
Cities
Organized _______________
Social __________

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The most important feature of early civilizations was the rise of _________
The first cities developed as people began to farm along _________________in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia

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These river valleys provided:
Water
__________ (rich) soil
______________

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Farmers living in river valleys could produce extra food
More food helped the population to grow
As a result villages slowly grew into cities

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All civilizations change as time passes
Civilizations change when the environment changes
[For example, when all wood in a forest has been cut, people must find new building materials]

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Civilizations also change through ___________________
______________is the sharing of ideas and technology
__________results from war, trade, and the migration of people

33. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization