Why did European Civilization Develop Differently than African Civilization

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Why did European Civilization Develop Differently
than African Civilization?
Teacher Information
Begin Lesson
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• Social Studies Standards Met
• STAIR Objective

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Standards

• Benchmark SOC.I.1.HS.3Identify some of the major
  eras in world history and describe their defining
  characteristics.
• Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.1Explain how major world
  processes affect different world regions.
• Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.4
• Describe major patterns of economic
  development and political systems and explain
  some of the factors causing them.

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Objectives

• Students will understand how geography played a
  significant role in Africa and Europes
  development
• Students will understand how the development of
  agriculture and animal domestication leads to
  greater complex civilizations
• Students will understand how complex
  civilizations have advantages over less complex
  civilizations

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Choose Your Path
The Major Ironic Question to Think
About (Recommended 1st Click)
The Agriculture Advantage
Help Amani Activity (Recommended last Click)
Geography Matters
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Africa is known as the cradle of mankind. It is
here that human life first began. Some time
around 100,000 to 50,000 years ago some people
started slowly moving out of Africa and into the
Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Archeologists have found the earliest human
remains here
Africa - where humans first lived
Click for Major Ironic Question
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If humans lived in Africa before they lived
anywhere else in the world, then why were
Europeans the first to develop a civilization
that allowed them to conquer and exploit Africa,
instead of Africans developing a civilization
that allowed them to conquer and exploit
Europeans?
Doesnt it seem like Africans would have the
development advantage over Europeans because they
lived on the same land for thousands of year
longer? Wouldnt this give them more time to be
settled and develop technology that could
eventually help them conquer Europeans and the
rest of the world?
Click for Understanding Check
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What is the ironic question that this activity is
going to answer?

• Why did the civilizations of the Middle East and
  Europe develop in a way that allowed them to
  conquer and exploit Africa, despite African
  development having thousands of years head start
• B) Why did the civilizations of Africa develop
  in a way that allowed them to conquer and exploit
  the Middle East and Europe, despite Euro/Middle
  Eastern development having a thousands of years
  head start

Review Major Ironic Question
Review Information
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Correct! Remember!!! The irony is that the
people of Africa lived there for thousands of
years before people ever moved into the Middle
East and Europe. But despite the head start in
civilization development, it would be the people
of the Middle East and Europe who developed their
civilizations in a way that eventually was able
to conquer and exploit Africa
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About 10,000 years ago a major difference
occurred amongst those people living in Africa
and those people living in the regions of the
Middle East and Europe. This difference was
The development of agriculture and animal
domestication
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But while this development in farming 10,000
years ago took place in parts of the Middle East
and Europe. The people of Africa remained
hunting and gathering their food for another
5,000 years
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Which Area of the world was the first to develop
agriculture and animal domestication?

• Africa
• Europe/Middle East
• D) None of the above

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Correct!
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So Why Does It Matter Who Developed Agriculture
First?

• The Development Game
• Objective Help the hunter/gatherer Grog find
  enough food to stay alive and develop his
  civilization
• Rules
• Choose from one of three hunting/gathering areas
  to go and look for food
• 2) Some areas will have food. Others will not.
  If you dont find food your hunger meter will
  decrease. If you find food it will increase.
• 3) Each time you go hunting you will spend the
  entire day walking to the area and
  hunting/gathering for food
• 4) After each day click on the Caesar icon to see
  how his civilization's development is doing in
  the Middle East/Europe part of the world

Grog (Hunter/Gatherer)
Caesar (Farmer/Animal Domesticator)
Click When Ready To Play
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Choose which area I should hunt and gather in
Food Bar
Starving Hungry
Full
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I just spent a whole day hunting and gathering
but I found nothing
Hows Caesars Development?
Starving Hungry
Full
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Return to Hunting/Gathering with Grog
Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is.
Starving Hungry
Full
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Choose which area I should hunt and gather in
Starving Hungry
Full
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I just spent a whole day hunting and gathering
but I found nothing. Now Im starving!
Hows Caesars Development?
Starving Hungry
Full
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Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is. And now Ive
got extra time to invent weapons that will be
able to kill anyone who tries to rob my farm,
animals, or home!
Return to Hunting/Gathering with Grog
Starving Hungry
Full
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Choose which area I should hunt and gather in
Starving Hungry
Full
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I just spent a whole day hunting and gathering
and I killed a lion! I ate it until I was full,
but I could not carry back a lot of extra meat
because I had my spear with me. A few hours
later I will be hungry again and I know I will
soon have to begin looking for more food!
Hows Caesars Development?
Starving Hungry
Full
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Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is. And now Ive
got extra time to invent weapons that will be
able to kill anyone who tries to rob my farm,
animals, or home. Now my farm has produced extra
food that I can use as a trade good. With all
this trading Ive now invented a method of
writing so that I can keep track of my financial
accounts.
Return to Hunting/Gathering with Grog
Starving Hungry
Full Extra Food To Trade
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Choose which area I should hunt and gather in
Starving Hungry
Full
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I just spent a whole day hunting and gathering
but I found nothing. Now Im starving!
Hows Caesars Development?
Starving Hungry
Full
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Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is. And now Ive
got extra time to invent weapons that will be
able to kill anyone who tries to rob my farm,
animals, or home. Now my farm has produced extra
food that I can use as a trade good. With all
this trading Ive now invented a method of
writing so that I can keep track of my financial
accounts. This invention of writing has allowed
me and other people to start writing laws so that
we can live amongst each other peacefully, and
help fight off other cities that we dont agree
with.
Return to Hunting/ Gathering with Grog
Starving Hungry
Full Extra Food To Trade
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Choose which area I should hunt and gather in
Starving Hungry
Full
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I just spent a whole day hunting and gathering
but I found nothing. If I dont eat soon Im
going to die. I better leave this entire area
and hope to find food somewhere else.
Hows Caesars Development?
Starving Hungry
Full
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Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is. And now Ive
got extra time to invent weapons that will be
able to kill anyone who tries to rob my farm,
animals, or home. Now my farm has produced extra
food that I can use as a trade good. With all
this trading Ive now invented a method of
writing so that I can keep track of my financial
accounts. This invention of writing has allowed
me and other people to start writing laws so that
we can live amongst each other peacefully, and
help fight off other cities that we dont agree
with. Now, weve built giant boats so that we
can sail to this land known as Africa so that we
can take the people living there as slaves and
use their raw materials as trade goods to make
money!
Return to Hunting/ Gathering with Grog
Starving Hungry
Full Extra Food To Trade
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Grog? Grog? Wheres Grog? Hes probably either
died from starvation, moved on to areas where he
can find food, been killed by Caesar and his
army, or taken as Caesars slave.
Starving Hungry
Full
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What advantage did Caesars civilization have
over Grogs, that helped his civilization develop
faster?

• A) Caesars civilization did not have any
  advantages
• B) Caesars civilization had agriculture, which
  meant they had a steady food source. This
  allowed them to stay in the same place and not
  have to constantly worry about where their next
  meal would come from. Having a constant food
  supply allowed his civilization the extra time to
  start developing other technologies
• C) From the beginning, Caesars civilization had
  better weapons than Brogs civilization. Thus
  they were able to conquer them

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Correct!

• The humans living in the Middle East and Europe
  developed agriculture first. This meant that
  they stopped the nomadic life style of living
  wherever there was a source of food. Once the
  humans had a constant, dependable source of food,
  they could stay put and spend their extra time
  not on having to worry about food, but instead
  building homes and inventing new technologies
  like weapons or writing. These technologies
  would continue to build upon each other until the
  societies in the Middle East and Europe were
  vastly more complex in terms of technology and
  the ability to conquer and explore other parts of
  the world.

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Geography Matters
Choose
Geography of Crops
Geography of Animals
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Of all the plants in the world, only a few have
allowed themselves to be grown in large numbers
which will then yield a product that can be
consumed for food.
For the people of the Middle East and Europe,
the crops of wheat and barely happened to be
native to these areas.
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Africa too had its own native crops such as
yamsand millets. But these native crops were
not develop into agriculture until a few thousand
years after the people of the Middle East and
Europe were already growing their own food.
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Yams? Wheat? Whats the difference? Its all
just food.
Actually, the people of the Middle East and
Europe had the geographic advantage of being on a
landmass that is heavily oriented towards the
direction longitude. Whereas the African
continent is more oriented towards latitude.
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• Latitude lines on the map that go horizontally
  across. Latitude is measured from the equator,
  with positive values going north and negative
  values going south

This is the Prime Meridian a line of longitude
that moves east and west
This is the equator a line of latitude that moves
north and south
Longitude lines on the map that go up and down.
Longitude is measured from the Prime Meridian
(which is the longitude that runs through
Greenwich, England) with positive values going
east and negative values going west.
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Quick Question

• The lines on this earth are
• Latitude Lines
• B) Longitude Lines

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Correct!
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What do you think would cause you to experience a
more dramatic change in temperature? Moving from
latitude to latitude or longitude to longitude?

• Latitude
• B) Longitude

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Correct!

• Moving latitudes can increase or decrease the
  temperatures that a person feels
• more significantly than moving longitudes. Every
  time a person moves latitudes
• they move either further away or closer to the
  equator, which is the hottest area
• on the earth. Therefore, if a person moves away
  from the equator the
• temperatures get colder, and if they move towards
  it, the temperatures get
• hotter.

Equator
Whereas moving between longitudes keeps a person
in the relatively same climate/temperature zones.
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How Does latitude and longitude affect crops?

• The Wheat, Yam, Barley, and Millet Game
• Objective
• ?Pick the two crops that will be able to travel
  across the most land
• area and still be planted. If your crops fades
  (dies) you
• chose poorly.
• ?The game is on your honor (you can click on them
  all if you want).
• Click the arrow button when youre done

Wheat Yam
Barely Millet
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Think about the game. Which crops were more
likely to spread across the land?

• A) The Crops in the Middle East/Europe
• B) The Crops in Africa

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Considering how crops react to temperatures,
which civilization would have an easier time
spreading out and populating the land?

• The civilizations in Africa
• The civilizations in the Middle East and Europe

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Below are some of the animals that are native to
both the African and Middle Eastern/European
regions
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Why Didnt people in Africa domesticate animals
like lions and giraffes as the people of the
Middle East and Europe domesticated the sheep and
cow?
Watch the time line
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Humans in Africa hunt the native animals. There
are no humans in the Middle East and Europe
100,000 Years Ago
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Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa while
there are still no Humans in the Middle East and
Europe
50,000 Years Ago
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Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But
because the animals in Africa have been hunted by
humans for so long they are now starting to
develop a healthy fear of them. There are still
no humans in the Middle East and Europe
25,000 Years Ago
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Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But
because the animals in Africa have been hunted by
humans for so long they are now starting to
develop a healthy fear of them. Now the animals
do not live as close nor do they come as close as
they once did. The animals know humans will hurt
them. Human have just arrived in the Middle East
and Europe. The animals have no idea that they
should be afraid of humans.
10,000 Years Ago
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Because humans hunted the African animals for so
long, the animals developed a fear to stay as far
away as possible and never developed the
mentality to be domesticated. Whereas the
animals in the Middle East and Europe never had a
chance to develop a fear of man as the they were
quickly domesticated instead of being hunted for
such a long period of time.
5,000 Years Ago
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Why did Africans have a hard time domesticating
their animals?

• Africans never had a hard time domesticating
• their animals
• B) Africans had been hunting their native animals
  for so long that over time the animals developed
  a fear of man and an instinct to stay away
• C) The Europeans Attacked the Africans before
  they could domesticate

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Correct!
Keep Your Distance Boys, hes had that spear for
the last 100,000 years!
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Hi, my name is Amani Jones. I am looking to
start a civilization, but I am not sure where I
should start it or what I should do when I get
there. Could you please pick the factors that I
need to have so that my society will quickly
develop into one that will invent new
technologies and give me the capabilities to
conquer other places in the world if I chose to?
Then will you please click on the button that
says reasons for choices and type in your
explanations? Make sure you print out your
reasons when you are done and turn them into that
wonderful World Studies teacher Mr. Abeel.
Thanks for your help, Amani
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Do I want a civilization that is on a piece of
land which is oriented more towards latitude or
longitude?
Do I want a civilization that develops
agriculture and domesticates animals or do I want
a civilization that is based around hunters and
gatherers?
Do I want a civilization that has spent thousands
of years hunting the animals before I domesticate
them or one that has never seen the animals that
I will domesticate?
Reason for Choices
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Correct Answer
Do I want a civilization that is on a piece of
land which is oriented more towards latitude or
longitude?
Do I want a civilization that develops
agriculture and domesticates animals or do I want
a civilization that is based around hunters and
gatherers?
Do I want a civilization that has spent thousands
of years hunting the animals before I domesticate
them or one that has never seen the animals that
I will domesticate?
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Think about all that you have learned about
civilization development. What one major factor
do you think allowed people in the Middle East
and Europe to develop a civilization that allowed
them to conquer the continent and people of
Africa, instead of the people of Africa
conquering the people of the Middle East and
Europe?

• Agricultural development
• Animal domestication
• Geography
• Hunting and Gathering

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Thank you for participating in this StAIR Project
Correct!!!

• Please make sure you
• complete the last
• question on your
• question sheet.
• Please make sure
• you answer
• in complete
• sentences.