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UNIT 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations (8000 B.C.E. to 600 B.C.E.) Key Concepts/Topics • • • • • • • • • •
Interaction of geography and climate with the development of human society Major population changes resulting from human and environmental factors Periodization in early human history Issues in using “civilization” as an organizing principle in world history Sources of change in history: diffusion versus independent invention Agricultural, pastoral, and foraging societies, and their demographic characteristics Emergence of agricultural and technological change Impact of agriculture on the environment Key stages of metal use Basic features of early civilizations
Textbook Chapters:
Princeton Review 2016, p. 163-182 Ways of the World, Chapters 3 Videos: Crash Course World History, episodes 1-4
Essential Documents:
Lascaux Cave Paintings The Epic of Gilgamesh Hammurabi’s Code Hymn to the Nile
Film Enrichment: Quest for Fire (1981) R Clan of the Cave Bear (1985) R 10,000 B.C. (2008) PG-13 Noah (2014) PG-13
The Prince of Egypt (1998) PG The Ten Commandments (1956) NR King David (1985) PG-13
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS 1. What were the basic characteristics of hunter-forager societies? Consider the following: migration, technology, religion, social and economic organization. 2. What was the Neolithic Revolution? a. Why and where (hint: several locations) did the Neolithic Revolution start? b. What were the long-term demographic, social, political, economic, environmental, and technological effects of the Neolithic Revolution? 3. What is a civilization? What are the defining characteristics of a civilization? a. Where did the earliest civilizations develop? Be able to identify the location of the following civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Shang China, the Olmec, and the Chavin. b. Why did civilization develop in these locations?
4. What is the origin of art? What were the major characteristics of art in each of the river valley civilizations? Be able to match art to the major early civilizations. a. What were the Characteristics of Classic art and architecture/ 5. What were the political characteristics of the early civilizations? Consider: leadership, expansion, legal system, etc 6. What methods did early civilizations use to unify their populations? Consider: architecture, forms of writing, literature, trade, and social/gender hierarchies.
TERMS and VOCABULARY These terms can be found in both the Princeton Review and Ways of the World Paleolithic Hunter-forager Nomad Indo-Europeans Agriculturalists Pastoralism Domestication Agricultural Revolution Neolithic Age Specialization Hierarchy Patriarchy Polytheism Mesopotamia Cuneiform Epic of Gilgamesh Ziggurat Indo-Europeans Hittites Pharaoh Hieroglyphics Harappa Mohenjo-Daro Mandate of Heaven Oracle bones Bureaucracy Olmec Chavin Quipu Bantu Migrations