Human Origins and Emergence of Civilization

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Human Origins and Emergence of Civilization

• Complete the vocabulary worksheet for the
  following terms
• Artifact
• Civilization
• Culture
• Domestication
• Nomad
• Radio Carbon Dating
• Homo sapiens

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• Prehistory before the invention of writing
  (roughly 5,000 years ago)
• We learn about early people thru scientific clues
• Artifacts
• Archeologist Study artifacts
• Paleontologists study fossils
• Anthropologist Study people and culture

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Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic Age (2.5 million to 8,000 B.C.)
• List the 3 biggest achievements of this era
  (p.7)?
• Neolithic Age (8,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C.)
• List the 4 biggest achievements of the Neolithic
  Age (p.7)?

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Paleolithic Advances in Technology Art

• 40K years ago humans take on modern physical
  appearance
• People were
• nomads (thousands of Years)
• hunters-gathers
• using 100s of tools (knives, fish hooks, and
  needles to sew clothing)
• created cave paintings artistic expression

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Neolithic Revolution

• Shift from food-gathering to food-producing
  (farming) culture
• Systematic Agriculture
• Domestication

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Villages Grow into Cities

• People begin to settle, establish towns
• Farming tools lead to larger harvests
• Economic changes
• More land more crops
• More crops more time to create
• pottery, metal objects, and woven cloth
• Become traders
• wheel and sail allow traveling greater distances
• Social Changes
• social classes emerge
• based on wealth, power, and influence
• Religion becomes more organized

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Civilization Develops

• Civilization is defined into 6 characteristics
• Cities
• Religion
• Government
• Writing
• Social Structure
• Art

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These are the 6 elements of Civilization. No
matter where it is, every civilization has
them. Look at your notes and see if you can list
at least 1 item from early mans life for each
element.
Religion
Government
Cities
Civilization
Art
Social Structure
Writing
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Your Culture
Now, take a look at your own culture. Think
about the city you live in now and name at least
1 item for each element of society.
Cities
Government
Art
Social Structure
Writing
Religion