Think About As You Read 1. How did the first people live? 2. What started the agricultural revolution? 3. Why did the Stone Age farmers live near rivers? New Words • Archaeologists • Earth • Tools • Stone Age • Agricultural Revolution • Tame THE FIRST PEOPLE The first people did not live the way we live today. They did not grow food or live in houses. They did not read or write. In this chapter we will learn how the first people lived. Archaeologists help us learn about people
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-AP World History - StearnsChapter 1 – From Human Prehistory to the Early CivilizationsI. IntroductionA. Human origin – 2.5 million years ago1. 1/4000 of earth’s existence – 24 hour day – last 5 minutesB. Human negatives and positives1. Aggressiveness‚ long baby time‚ back problems‚ death fears2. Grip‚ high/regular sex drive‚ omnivores‚ facial expressions‚ speechC. Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age – 2.5 million to 12000 BCE1. Simple tools – increase in size‚ brain capacity – Homo erectusII. Late Paleolithic
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Technology: Prehistory to 1500 CE Kayla Martino HIS103: Word Civilizations I Prof. Paul Toro March 4‚ 2013 From prehistory to the 1500 CE‚ our ancestors have created technologies that we use today. These technologies have been building blocks that get more advanced throughout time and are still progressing with the inventions that we have today. Throughout history‚ people had to come up with new ways to making life easier to survive. Transportation‚ communication‚ and production are just
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the country and into Taiwan. By its very nature‚ Philippine prehistory is “the period of unrecorded history consisting of archeological discoveries‚ way of life‚ geographical and geological data in order to know our country’s origin and the roots of the original Filipino.” As such‚ it is important for Filipinos to learn about their heritage so as to establish their own national identity. Furthermore‚ studying Philippine prehistory urges Filipinos to not merely accept the information that is given
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information off from this piece of data. Prehistory‚ however‚ is based from documents such as tools made from stone or other more complicated structures‚ such as architecture. These documents show how our understanding of prehistory changes based on the documents‚ architecture‚ culture‚ or evidence left behind for up-coming generations to start to investigate on. Prehistory and History are both similar but can be very different. Many aspects of prehistory are based on its land and what was left on
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Philippine Prehistory - The First Inhabitants - 40‚000 BP The Philippines is an archipelago of 7‚107 islands in the South China Sea situated between Taiwan to the north and Borneo to the south. Just 2‚000 of its islands are inhabited and only 500 are larger than a kilometre square. The nine largest islands of Luzon‚ Mindanao‚ Palawan‚ Panay‚ Mindoro‚ Samar‚ Negros‚ Leyte and Cebu make up 90% of the nation’s land area. Over the past two million years‚ the earth has undergone twenty cycles of glaciation
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Teaching Assistants: ARCHAEOLOGY 100 Ancient Peoples and Places Teaching Assistants: Jessi Witt Email: jwitt@sfu.ca Office: EDB 9644 Office Hours: ?? Greg Morrissey Email: gem@sfu.ca Office: EDB 9644 Office Hours: ?? Text ‘World Prehistory and Archaeology’ by Michael Chazan Pearson Education Inc. Sold at the SFU Bookstore. Readings Weekly readings are indicated on the course schedule. They are all from the course textbook. 1 Evaluation 3 Quizzes @ 20% per quiz (50 minutes
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Keron Williams History 131 Assignment: Women in prehistory 01.29.2015 1. Describe societies before the advent of plough [plow] agriculture? Before the advent of plough agriculture people lived in horticultural societies. Women main concern was the gathering of plant foods while the men hunted animals. 2. How did the agricultural revolution change the production of food and the gendered distribution of labor in society? The agriculture revolution change the production of food and the division
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and animals looked like thousands or even million years ago? And what they did to maintain life there and survive? Archaeology can help us find that out and can help us find out even more information about prehistory. In simple words archaeology is the study of ancient human history and prehistory‚ by examining artifacts that were found‚ and with machines to get D.N.A. archaeology helped us learn so much about the past and our great ancestors. Without archaeology we wouldn’t be able to get a full grasp
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first sample being the Narmer palette (3100 BCE). The Hebrew language was on the first language to utilized the method of writing with an alphabet‚ which relates a unique symbol for each phoneme‚ the Greek and the Latin alphabet derive from it. Prehistory The first tangible artifact was discovered in 1908 in Austria. It was a human art found from the Stone Age period. During the Paleolithic (25 000-8000 BCE)‚ man practiced hunting and living in cave where painting are developed. But not only in
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