Chapter One:Section Two

Prehistory – 2 eras Old Stone Age / Paleolithic Period 2 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C. New Stone Age / Neolithic Period 10,000 B.C. – 3,500 B.C.

Similarities - In both periods people used stone tools

Differences - New Stone Age – new skills and tech. that lead to changes in daily life

Early humans lived in the end of Old Stone Age

Nomads – people who move from place to place to find food

Lived in groups of 20 -30 Men – jobs Women – jobs Made tools out of bone, wood, stone Used fire for cooking and skins for clothing Development of language …

40,000 yrs. Ago people boated to SE Asia and Australia

Religion? End of Old Stone Age/100,000 yrs., began

burying their dead with great care How is this a sign of a belief in afterlife?

Animism – belief that spirits reside in animals, objects, or dreams

Cave drawings, deep in caves away from living areas – religious rituals

How would life be different for a person that lives in a settlement compared to a nomad?

Neolithic Revolution People began to be able to produce their

own food No longer needed to search for food Could remain in one place year round Established first permanent villages Led to new technologies Why is it called a revolution?

Domestication – raise plants and animals in ways best for human use

Realized seeds could be saved and planted

Rounded up animals that they hunted

Did the Revolution happen everywhere around the world at the same time?

China – 13,000 B.C. – dogs Western Asia – 8,000 – 6,000 B.C. goats, sheep, pigs Turkey and Africa domesticated cattle / S. America

llama and alpacas, around the same time 10,000 B.C. – 6,000 B.C. Africa, SE Asia – yams China – millet and rice Central America and Mexico – squash, gourds Middle East – barley, chickpeas, peas, lentils, wheat After all this domestication – what life changes did

people make?

First Neolithic Villages Catalhuyuk – Turkey – 7,000 B.C. 6,500 people three times bigger than

Jericho

Jericho – Israel – built 10,000 – 9,000 B.C. Few thousand people lived there – small Surrounded by a wall – What did that

mean?

Work divided by gender Men dominated family, economic,

political Also, heads of family Older men = Council of Elders Made important decisions – plant /

harvest

Ability to accumulate possessions and differences in wealth appeared

Farming – to be successful – needed new tech. Invented calendars – why?, Specialization in occupation – tools, weaving

cloth from hair or vegetable fibers, clay pottery

Again: Technologies not created everywhere at the same time – slowly traveled – thousands of years

Some invented similar but separate showing diff. and sim.

By yourself: What is one invention you could not do

without? How has it changed your life? If it was gone, how would your life be different? Be specific.