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Title: Toward Civilization


1
Toward Civilization
  • Chapter 1

2
Understanding Our Past
  • Section 1

3
Geography and History
  • Geography-
  • -study of people, their environments, and
    resources available.
  • Geography adds to our understanding of human
    history

4
5 Themes of Geography
  • Location
  • Place
  • Human-Environment Interaction
  • Movement
  • Region

5
How do we Know?
  • Anthropology
  • Study of the origin and development of people and
    societies.
  • Culture- way of life of society handed down from
    generations.
  • Archaeology
  • Study artifacts human made objects.
  • Tools, weapons, pottery, clothing
  • Historians
  • Focus on written evidence.

6
The Dawn of History
  • Section 2

7
The Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
  • Ends around 10,000 B.C.
  • Nomadic people
  • Everyone worked to find food.

8
Early Religious Beliefs
  • Evidence
  • Cave paintings, statues, burial rituals.
  • Animism

9
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
  • Farming
  • Settlement
  • Domestication of Animals
  • Growth in population
  • New technologies-
  • Harness animal power, calendar

10
Beginnings of Civilization
  • Section 3

11
Rise of Cities
  • Civilization-
  • Complex, highly organized social order.
  • River Valley Civilizations
  • Cities in the Americas

12
Features of a Civilization
  • Cities
  • Organized Government
  • Complex Religion
  • Job Specialization
  • Social Classes
  • Arts and Architecture
  • Public Works
  • Writing

13
Spread of Civilization
  • City-State
  • Political unit that included a city and
    surrounding land
  • Empire-
  • Group of states controlled by one ruler
  • Cultural Diffusion-
  • Spread of ideas, customs, technologies
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