World History Lesson 02 Unit – What is History?

The Agricultural Revolution

Do Now

•What did you eat for breakfast? Please write one paragraph using full sentences.

Where does our food come from?

• The obvious answer to the question above is the store. But do you know how it got there?• If you had cereal for breakfast it could have been

grown in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, or Indonesia• If you had orange juice the oranges might have

been grown in Florida, Mexico or Brazil• If you had a banana it could have come from

Ecuador, Costa Rica or Colombia

TERMS TO KNOW

• Hunter-Gatherer – People who rely on the food they can either hunt or find growing in the wild• Nomad – People who are forced to move often in

order to find more food• Domestication – Taming a plant or animal for

human use • Agriculture – The cultivation of plants and

animals for human use• Civilization – A highly developed culture

Has it always been this way?

• The answer is NO

• For thousands of years humans lived off what they could find or hunt. These people were called hunter-gathers

• These people were nomads, living off what they could find and moving when the food supply ran low

How did we get here?

• What changed from humans constantly moving to find their food to having food shipped from all over the world?• The simple answer is domestication and

agriculture

Crash course in World History

LINK: Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course in World Historyhttp://www.schooltube.com/video/699089150fbf4cdda054/Agricultural%20Revolution:%20Crash%20Course%20in%20World%20History

So what changed?

• The Agricultural Revolution led to humans having enough food to be able to stay in one place. This meant we could create civilizations with..• A stable food supply• A social structure• A system of government• A religious system• A written language• Culture (art, music, architecture)• Advances in technology

Stable food supply

• The most immediate change was that humans now had an abundance of food.

• Having a stable food supply is important because without it people would not have the time and energy to do other things

Social Structure

• A social structure includes different jobs at different levels

• This picture shows the social structure of ancient Egypt

Government

• A government organized people and made laws for how people should act

• Governments helped reinforce the social order. Sometimes they also organized people to build irrigation systems, monuments, other structures

Religion

• Religion was important to early humans because it explained things that were a mystery

• Religion also helped humans develop a moral code with rules to follow and consequences for breaking those rules

This is a ziggurat, an ancient temple tower in Mesopotamia

A written Language

• Writing is an important part of any civilization. It is one way to pass down information from generation to generation

• Languages evolve over time. A lot of our modern English is based upon Greek and Latin that existed thousands of years ago

This cuneiform tablet from Sumer is one of the earliest forms of a written language

Culture

• Culture includes things like• Art• Music• Dance• Jewelry• Architecture

• Historians can learn a lot about a group of people by studying their culture

• What does our culture say about who we are as a group?

Technological Advances

• Technology is applying knowledge to make our lives easier or better

• Some forms of early technology include• The wheel• The archway• The plow• Irrigation systems

Your task

• On a sheet of paper, create a spoke diagram like the one below. Add a picture for each of the 7 categories