World Timeline

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World Timeline
(Anno Domini)
1 A.D.
2013
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1 B.C.
4.5 Billion
2.5 Million
5,500
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Pre-History

• Pre-history the period before writing had been
  invented any period before 5,500 years ago
• Most people were nomads who moved constantly in
  search of food
• had few possessions

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Nomadic Life style
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Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age)

• Began 2.5 million years ago and ended 12,000
  B.C.E.
• Named because they used stone tools
• Foraging hunting and gathering (females
  gathered fruits, nuts, and seeds males were
  hunters)
• By 50,000 B.C.E. developed speech

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Paleolithic Age
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Stone Tools
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Old Stone Age Areas of Europe
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Neanderthals

• 200,000 years ago
• Nomads
• Used fire for cooking
• Lived in small groups of around 35-50

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Neolithic Period (New Stone Age)

• Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Rev.)began
  10,000 years ago
• Shift from gathering food to producing food
• More reliable food supply
• Slash and burn agricultureslashing the bark on
  trees later burning dead ones, the ashes
  enriched the soil for years
• Agriculture brought about a more stable
  environment
• Grew crops like wheat, barley, rice, potatoes
• Domesticated animals- cattle, pigs, sheep,
  chickens, dogs

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What is the difference between a domesticated
animal and a tamed animal?
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6 Characteristics of Domesticated Animals

1. Quick rate of growth
2. Diet easy to supply
3. Docile
4. Submission social structure
5. Doesnt panic
6. Breed in captivity

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Neolithic Period Life

• People lived longer because they could produce
  food
• People settled in communities
• Technological advances
• i. Invented the plow
• ii. Fertilized their fields
• iii. Looms for weaving
• iv. Baked clay bricks for construction
• v. Hammered metals to make weapons and
  jewelry
• vi. Created calendars (to measure seasons)
• vii. Worshipped deities

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Which of the 7 technological advances do you feel
was the most important? Why?
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Growth of Agriculture
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Jericho
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House in Jericho, in present-day Palestine
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Key Ideas

• History a record and explanation of what people
  have thought, said, and done
• Culture peoples unique way of life
• Cultural Diffusion the process by which an idea
  or technique devised in one society spreads to
  another
• Independent invention when an civilization
  independently produces a material object, idea,
  or behavior pattern

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PERSIA

• Politicalgovernment, leaders, law and order,
  laws
• Religionleaders, traditions, beliefs
• Economicmoney, trade, business
• Socialeveryday life, gender, family, social
  classes
• Intellectualtechnological advances, education,
  new ideas
• Artisticmusic, paintings, architecture

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Characteristics of Civilization

• Civilization comes from the Latin word city

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