Early Humans

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Essential Question: What is the impact of geography on the following?

• Human Settlement and Migration• Spread of ideas / cultural diffusion

Australopithecines• 1st to grow the

opposable thumb

•First humanlike creature to walk upright

Censored

How it all began…• Homo Sapiens (modern

humans) appeared in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago.

• Then migrated to –Europe –Asia–Australia–The Americas

How did they find their food?• Early human societies

met their needs by hunting animals and gathering other foods like edible plants.

• These hunters and gatherers were also known as nomads.

Nomads

• Nomads: People who depend on wild plants and animals to survive. They followed where the food supply went and gathered seeds and nuts.

HUMAN LIFE IS SPLIT INTO

TWO PERIODS!TO BE CONTINUED…

Road to the Agricultural Revolution

Paleolithic to Neolithic Era

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Prehistory

• Prehistoric or Prehistory – refers to the time before the advancement of writing.

Paleolithic Era• Paleolithic Era

also means Old Stone Age.

• The Paleolithic or old stone age began 2 million years go.

Paleolithic Era• Homo Sapiens during

this period were:– Nomads

– The first to make simple tools and weapons.

– Make cave art

– Master the use of Fire.

– Develop a language

– Living in clans

Neolithic Era• Neolithic Era also

means the new stone age.

Homo Sapiens during this period:

• Developed agriculture• Domesticated animals• Used advanced tools like spears• Developed weaving skills

The Agricultural Revolution

• The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the Agricultural Age

• Nomads turned to Farmers

• They learned to domesticate (tame) animals

• They learned to farm their food

What did it all lead to?• All of these developments led to the

rise of settlements and agriculture.

• This advanced homo sapiens towards civilization.

Neolithic Age

Archaeological excavation and conservation by an

international team started in 1993 under the

direction of Dr Ian Hodder of the Çatalhöyük

Research Project, Stanford University.

• Mastered the art of farming, had complex societies & created armies to protect walled cities

•  One early city - Catal Huyuk, located in present day Turkey.  

• They built mud-brick homes.  Catal Huyuk means Forked Mound.

•  High point from 6700 to 5700 B.C.

Catal Huyuk could have looked similar to this graphic.

Lineage Groups or Kinship Units traced descendants through

Matrilineal or Patrilineal

Residents entered cities with ladders.

2 Early Neolithic Towns Catal Huyuk

& Jericho

Jericho: It is also believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.

Catal Huyuk Art Forms

MANKIND 1

The Five Features The Five Features of a Civilizationof a Civilization

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Advanced Cities• In order to be

considered a city it must have:–1. Large

population

–2. Must be a center of TRADE

Complex Institutions• Institution – a long

lasting pattern of organization in a community such as– Government

– Religion

– Economy

Technology

• New tools and techniques that solve problems and make life easier

Specialized Workers• Specialized

means someone has the skills to do a specific kind of work

Record Keeping• Must have a

developed system of writing so the people can:– Record business

– Write a set of laws

– Priests can record rituals and dates

Pneumonic Device• Ants

– Advanced Cities• Can’t

– Complex Institutions (government, religion)

• Take– Technology

• Slick– Specialized workers

• Rice– Record Keeping

MANKIND Pt 2

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