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Activity Groups Each group will research an aspect of the Stone Age. Tools Language Clothes Animals Family Structure
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Let’s share!! Each group will share what it discovered about its topic
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Did your stone age look like this??? Flintstones - Opening and Closing Credits - YouTube Flintstones - Opening and Closing Credits - YouTube
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Moving from the old stone age… Into the new stone age!! It’s called the Neolithic Era
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Characteristics of Neolithic Era Advances in Toolmaking Food
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Nomads People lived as nomads, by hunting & gathering…and then they learned to farm
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Neolithic Revolution Historians call this shift to farming NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION Ice Age over-new plants & animals show up-like barley and wheat
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Gathering Food So people can now GATHER food instead of constantly searching for new sources and Now they begin to practice domestication-the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
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Dog is a man’s best friend!
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Agriculture Changes Society World population grew. Why? Some began to live as nomadic pastoralists-people who ranged over wide areas & kept herds of livestock on which they depended for food & other items
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Early Farming Societies Lived close together Houses-mud bricks or other materials Raised crops & livestock Villages & towns emerged
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Early Farming Societies Trade increases! Differences in social status emerges More formalized religion Megaliths show up
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Megaliths Huge stones-built as monuments for burial or spiritual purposes
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Stonehenge Secrets of Stonehenge (1/4) – YouTube Secrets of Stonehenge (1/4) – YouTube Secrets of Stonehenge (2/4) - YouTube Secrets of Stonehenge (2/4) - YouTube
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New Technologies Tools were developed Around 6000 BCE people began to use animals-like cows-to pull plows Clay used to make pottery
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Catal Huyuk In modern day Turkey
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Otzi the Iceman
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The Bronze Age is Coming Sheep & goats provided wool-making garments & blankets Metal began being used-first copper & then bronze-a mix of copper & tin making stronger objects So enters the Bronze Age-around 3000 BCE in some areas, later in others
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Activity Now take your research on the stone age & do research on the Bronze Age. Let’s compare and contrast.
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Section 3 Foundations of Civilization
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From Villages to Cities Gradual transition New methods of farming were developed Development of irrigation systems was VERY important Surplus-excess-was produced
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Changing Economies Fewer people needed to farm So other jobs developed-like tool making and weapons, weavers, potters, religious leaders Division of labor- economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job-was developed
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Characteristics of Cities Some villages grew into cities Larger & more densely populated Uruk is the first known city-between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in today’s Iraq 3000 BCE 40,000-50,000 people
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Cities Populations were more diverse-more people were unrelated More formal organization than villages Defined center Temples Monuments Govt buildings marketplaces
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Cities Defined boundaries- defensive walls Centers of trade Merchants & farmers from surrounding villages traveled to city markets to exchange goods
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First Civilizations Formed from early cities Define civilization- A complex and organized society From fertile river valleys
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Fertile River Valleys Tigris & Euphrates in Southwest Asia
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Fertile River Valleys The Nile in Africa
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Fertile River Valleys Indus in South Asia
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Fertile River Valleys Huang He (Yellow River) in China
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Fertile River Valleys Rivers flooded Religions developed differently Violent & unpredictable floods created more violent gods Regular flooding created more predictable, less violent gods
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Characteristics of Early Civilizations Developed cities Examples include: Ur and Uruk near Tigris and Euphrates Memphis on the Nile Mohenjo Daro on the Indus River Anyang near Huang He
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Characteristics Contd Organized Government Formalized Religion Specialization of Labor Artisans showed up-skilled craftspeople Basketry Carpentry Metalwork pottery
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Characteristics Contd Social Classes Rulers, priests, and nobles Merchants and artisans Farmers and unskilled workers (majority) Enslaved people
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Characteristics Contd Record Keeping and Writing Record keeping in Sumer used clay tokens & pouches Systems of writing developed about 5,000 years ago Picture symbols Then abstract symbols
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Characteristics Contd The Arts
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Change in Civilization Expansion and Warfare Spread of people & ideas Cultural Diffusion-spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another Environmental Influences Floods & other natural disasters
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