Chapter 1: Toward Civilization Prehistory-3000 B.C.

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Chapter 1 Toward CivilizationPrehistory-3000
B.C.

• Section 1 Understanding Our Past
• Section 2 The Dawn of History
• Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

• Summary
• Scientists and __________ study the past to see
  how early people ______

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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

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

• Prehistory-

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

• __________ peoples had no cities, countries, or
  organized governments
• About __________years ago, some people in
  different parts of the world invented writing
• This event marked the beginning of human
  _______________

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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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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

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

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

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

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

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

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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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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

• __________ 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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Section 1 Understanding Our Past

• Geographers ______________________________________
  
• They also study the __________ of goods and ideas

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Section 1 Understanding Our Past
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
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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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Section 2 The Dawn of History

• 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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Section 2 The Dawn of History

• 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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Section 2 The Dawn of History

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

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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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Section 2 The Dawn of History

• 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
• __________________________________

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Section 2 The Dawn of History

• This change marked the beginning of the New Stone
  Age, or the _______________________

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Section 2 The Dawn of History

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

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Section 2 The Dawn of History

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

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Section 2 The Dawn of History

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

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Section 2 The Dawn of History
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Age) 2,500,000 B.C.
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Section 2 The Dawn of History
New Stone Age (Neolithic Age) 10,000 B.C.
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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

• Summary
• Civilizations share basic features
• Contacts between civilizations brought
  _____________ change

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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

• 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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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

• 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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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

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

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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

• 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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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

• 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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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization

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

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Section 3 Beginnings of Civilization