From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers

Let’s review…

• How did the early humans provide food for themselves?

• What affect did the Ice Age have on the early humans?

• What happened to early humans as time progressed?

Answers:

• Early humans were hunters and gatherers• The Ice Age made people move around to

survive, and it spread early humans all across the world. Some people did starve or freeze to death during the Ice Age.

• As time progressed early humans got smarter and smarter

Early Humans Learn to Domesticate Animals & Plants

• What is domestication? …to tame• Domestication led to new ideas such as

farming-Herding Animals-Growing Crops

Farming…

• Before farming families had to hunt and gather to provide, so they were limited to the number of people in their families

• Being able to grow food and have farm animals allowed for more people

Food Surplus

• Even though there were a lot more people in the world than ever before, people were still able to surplus food

• Surplus food = grow too much food and store it for later

Surplus Food led to Job Specialization

• Since people were able to store food and save it for later, not everyone was needed to prepare for their family

• This freed up other people to do other jobs, which is called Job Specialization

•Many of these jobs were: Weavers, Stone Masons, Potters, Priests, Scribes, Traders, and Army officers

Domestication of Plants and Animals

Farming

Surplus FoodSpecializationPopulation

Intensification

Complex Society,also known asCIVILIZATION

What is a civilization?

• A large group of people who live together and act in an organized manner

• There were getting to be a lot of people on the earth, so they needed to be organized

What is needed in order for a large

number of people to live, get along, be successful, etc.?

• Government: Rules, Laws, etc.

• Writing and Record Keeping

• Public Works: Roads, Bridges, etc.

• Social Classes

• Organized Religion

•Development of cities