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• The Stone Age lasted almost 2 million years!• The Stone Age is divided into 3 different me
periods:> Paleolithic (Paleo = Early)> Mesolithic (Meso = Middle) > Neolithic (Neo = New)
Stone Age
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Paleolithic Age: (2 million BCE to 12,000 BCE)• The climate went through an Ice Age and began
to warm up• Hunter‐gatherers moved from place to place• Moved to follow their food sources and find
places that weren’t too cold
Stone Age
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• Lile technology during this me. All tools were made out of stone (mostly flint/bone)
Stone Age https://vimeo.com/21927963
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Mesolithic Age: (12,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE) • Climate connued to get warmer• microlith invented: small triangular shaped
blade of stone used in knives/spears/axes• Other invenons: boats from hollowed logs,
fishing nets and hooks
Stone Age
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Neolithic Revoluon: (10,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE)• Agriculture: People learned how to plant and
harvest crops• People began to live in cies and towns• The first governments are formed (organizaon)
Neolithic Revolution
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Culvate ‐ Using land for growing crops• Most historians believe that women were the
first farmers• They believe that the women noced paerns
in the growth of wild plants and learned how to culvate plants
Neolithic Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzQFIZuNFY
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First farming and civilization zone
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“Ferle Crescent” : farmable land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East• This is where the world’s first farmers seled• Modern day Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Turkey
Neolithic Revolution
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Domescaon ‐ Growing plants to eat or using animals for work and food
• Humans began to domescate dogs to help with hunng about 12,000 BCE
• Farm animals were domescated around 8,000 BCE (goats, sheep, cows, pigs)
• The animals were used as a food source (meat and milk) and to do work in the fields (plowing)
Neolithic Revolutionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCLQ_8I1paY
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Neolithic Revolution• Because fewer people were needed in the fields for farming and
hunng, they could specialize in other trades:• Making tools and weapons, building houses, making clothes,
merchants to sell items• Specializaon led to innovaon, and innovaon led to
improvement in people's lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1FaVW1nCuc
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Bronze Age: 4,500 BCE – 500 BCE• Humans began to use bronze tools for hunng and farming• bronze tools were stronger and sharper than stone/copper tools • The first wrien language was created during this me
Neolithic Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWIuyeNp2k
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Iron Age: Lasted from 1000 BCE to 1 CE• At the end of the Bronze age, humans started to use iron and
steel because it was stronger• iron farm tools (plow, hoe, sickle, shovel) along swords/spears/
shields gave big advantages
Neolithic Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1828192697&feature=iv&list=PLLXfVEsLIqTOjFzTMp4lrQDcjXK9zVR&src_vid=3EMy9H8PkQc&v=CRziP8sQhXM
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• Discovered farming• Allowed us to sele down and not be nomads anymore• This led to the first cies and towns
> Governments were needed• This led to job specializaon
> New technology • This first happened in “the Ferle Crescent”
Neolithic era changes to humanity
