Week 2

World History

Day 1

List the themes of World History?

What and When is your HW due?

What 3 items must you have in class every day?

Time When events occurred Chronology helps us make sense of events BC/ BCE- Before Christ or Before the

common Era AD/CE- Anno Domini or Common Era Decade- 10 years Century- 100 years Millennium- 1,000 years Age/Era- Time period with out specific start

or end but has shared characteristics

Place

What an area is like in physical (landforms, soil, climate, resources) and human terms (culture)

Location

Absolute- a places point of latitude (N/S of Equator) and longitude (E/W of prime meridian

Relative location – a places point in relation to other areas

Human/Environment Interaction

Humans have changed/ been changed by their environment

Region Any area that has common characteristics

ie: physical, cultural (religion and language), organizational

Movement

Transfer of people, goods and, ideas

In groups

Open books to page xxxii-xxxiiv Answer the following in complete sentences

4-5 sentences per answer What is time and how is it measured? Describe Milwaukee according to the 5

themes of Geography and

Homework time

Day 2

Where can all assignments and class info be found?

List the 5 themes of geography?

What is meant by CE/BCE?

Human Origins in AfricaDefining Prehistory

• Time before the invention of writing, in 3,000 BCE

Scientific Clues

• Archaeologists study bones and artifacts—human-made objects

• Anthropologists study culture—a group’s way of life

• Paleontologists study fossils—plant or animal

remains preserved in rock

Stone AgeTwo Phases

• Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.

• Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) lasted from 8000 to 3000 B.C.

• Paleolithic Age had cold temperatures and large glaciers (Ice Age)

• Use of tools, fire, and language develops during the Stone Age LUCY -Hominid 3.5

million years

•Australopithecines4 million to 1 million B.C.• found in S. and E. Africa• first human like creature to walk uprightHomo habilis• 2.5 million to

1.5 million B.C.• found in East Africa• brain size 700 cm3• first to make stone tools

Homo erectus

• 1.6 million to 30,000 B.C.

• found in Africa, Asia, and Europe Technology, fire, migration

Neanderthal

• 200,000 to 30,000 B.C.

• found in Europe and Southwest Asia

Ritu alistic Burial

Cro-Magnon

• 40,000 to 8000 B.C.

• found in Europe

• fully modern humans created art

1

Time line Groups

• In groups of 4

• Create a time line of the development of Homo sapiens

• Include dates, a description (3 sentences) and the following words with a definition of how their relevance to the time line

• Artifact, hominid, Paleolithic Age, Neolithic Age, Lucy, and the Leaky Family

Day 3

• How were Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons different from earlier groups of peoples?

• What is technology?

• Provide an example and explain how a group of early people used it to their advantage?

Humans try to control nature

Tools Needed to Survive

• Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) humans were nomads—moved in search of food

• Hunted animals, collected plant foods—were hunter-gatherers

• Cro-Magnons had more than 100 specialized tools; bone needles to sew

• Neolithic Revolution—agricultural revolution, began about 10,000 years ago

• Nomadic women scattered seeds, then discovered crops growing

• Shift from food-gathering to food-production great breakthrough

Causes of the Agricultural Revolution

• Rising temperatures probably a key reason

• Longer growing seasons, drier land for wild grasses

• Constant supply of food led to population growth, animal domestication, and villages

Civilization

Advanced Cities

• Cities with larger populations rise, become centers of trade

UR- 30,000 people 3,000 BCE

Specialized Workers

• Labor becomes specialized—specific skills of workers developed

• Artisans make goods that show skill and artistic ability

CivilizationComplex Institutions

• Institutions (governments, religion, the economy) are established

• Governments establish laws, maintain order

• Temples are centers for religion, government, and trade

Record Keeping

• Professional record keepers, scribes, record taxes and laws

• Scribes invent cuneiform, a system of writing about 3000 B.C.

• People begin to write about city events

Improved Technology

• New tools and techniques make work easier

• The Bronze Age starts in Sumer around 3000 B.C.

• People replace copper and stone with bronze to make tools, weapons

Group

• Use the 5 characteristics to prove Sumer was a civilization and that you live in a civilization.

Homework