Notes of Lesson 1 1/31/14

Learning Objective 1:

·         Trace the key developments of prehistory, from the emergence of our human ancestors to the beginning.

1.      Before Civilization: the prehistoric era

2.      The Origins and Ages of Human Beings

·         About 200,000 years ago, in southwest Africa, appeared a human species

·         By 14,000 years ago, become the human race of the present day.

·         Paleolithic age: the earliest and longest period of prehistory, when human used simple stone tools.

·         By 8000 b.c. thay had advanced to southern asia and northeastern Africa.

·         Neolithic Age: the period of human history characterized by advances in stone tool making and the beginnings of agriculture.

·         Followed by the Bronze age 3000-1000 b.c.

·         Next came the Iron age after 1000 to later periods.

·         The Hunting and Gathering Way of life

·         Happened during the Paleolithic age

·         People migrated, hunted, fished, gathered plant, sheltered in caves, lived in temporary huts

·         Made tools

·         Women would take care of children

·         The Agricultural Revolution: the shift from hunting and gathering food to a more settled way of life based on farming and herding occurred gradually between 8000 and 4000 b.c. in north Asia, northern Africa, and Europe, and separately in other parts of the world.

·         Advanced tool making, had farming life, tamed animals, rise in population, growth in hereditary differences of wealth, status, and power within communities,

·         Climate, Skills, Technologies

·         Had a whole range of new technology helped bring new life for human race, bread, beer, wine, cheese, edible oils, woven clothes, leather, pottery for cooking and storge, bricks for houses

·         Villages and Families

·         Around 6000 b.c. the first agricultural villiages appeared in south Africa.

·         Villages grew with up to 300 people

·         Polytheism: the belief in many gods and goddess

·         Men, Women, and Farming

·         Division between genders, and parties

·         Men were the main suppliers for food

·         Domesticated animals

·         Mens work and womens work were very different

·         Villiages and civilization

·         Adapted to wheat and different climates

·         The Asian land of Mesopatemia and the northeastern African land of Egypt about 3500 b.c. where the earliest known civilizations arose.