chapter one: section two. prehistory – 2 eras old stone age / paleolithic period 2 million b.c....
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Prehistory – 2 eras Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period 2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C. New Stone Age / Neolithic Period 10,000 B.C. – 3,500 B.C.
Similarities - In both periods people used stone tools
Differences - New Stone Age – new skills and tech. that lead to changes in daily life
Early humans lived in the end of Old Stone Age
Nomads – people who move from place to place to find food
Lived in groups of 20 -30 Men – jobs Women – jobs Made tools out of bone, wood, stone Used fire for cooking and skins for clothing Development of language …
40,000 yrs. Ago people boated to SE Asia and Australia
Religion? End of Old Stone Age/100,000 yrs., began
burying their dead with great care How is this a sign of a belief in afterlife?
Animism – belief that spirits reside in animals, objects, or dreams
Cave drawings, deep in caves away from living areas – religious rituals
Neolithic Revolution People began to be able to produce their
own food No longer needed to search for food Could remain in one place year round Established first permanent villages Led to new technologies Why is it called a revolution?
Domestication – raise plants and animals in ways best for human use
Realized seeds could be saved and planted
Rounded up animals that they hunted
Did the Revolution happen everywhere around the world at the same time?
China – 13,000 B.C. – dogs Western Asia – 8,000 – 6,000 B.C. goats, sheep, pigs Turkey and Africa domesticated cattle / S. America
llama and alpacas, around the same time 10,000 B.C. – 6,000 B.C. Africa, SE Asia – yams China – millet and rice Central America and Mexico – squash, gourds Middle East – barley, chickpeas, peas, lentils, wheat After all this domestication – what life changes did
people make?
First Neolithic Villages Catalhuyuk – Turkey – 7,000 B.C. 6,500 people three times bigger than
Jericho
Jericho – Israel – built 10,000 – 9,000 B.C. Few thousand people lived there – small Surrounded by a wall – What did that
mean?
Work divided by gender Men dominated family, economic,
political Also, heads of family Older men = Council of Elders Made important decisions – plant /
harvest
Ability to accumulate possessions and differences in wealth appeared
Farming – to be successful – needed new tech. Invented calendars – why?, Specialization in occupation – tools, weaving
cloth from hair or vegetable fibers, clay pottery
Again: Technologies not created everywhere at the same time – slowly traveled – thousands of years
Some invented similar but separate showing diff. and sim.