Discussion Questions

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Discussion Questions

• Ch. 1 Sect. 2 3

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Match each of these and how they relate (once
matched they are eliminated)

1. Old Stone Age
2. New Stone Age
3. Paleolithic Period
4. 10,000 BC until end of prehistory
5. 2 million BC to 10,000 BC
6. Neolithic Period

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Explain what nomads were

• People who move from place to place finding food
• 20 to 30 people
• Men hunted or fished
• Women and children gathered

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Name some Stone Age achievements

• Built tools and weapons out of stone, bone, or
  wood
• Fire
• Animal skins for clothing
• Spoken language
• Travel across water

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• Q. What do burial customs suggest about the
  beliefs of early peoples?
• A. Believed in an afterlife that was similar to
  life in this world. Buried with certain tools or
  weapons to help in journey.

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• Q. What were the key features of the Neolithic
  agricultural revolution?
• A. Learned how to plant food crops. Domesticated
  and kept animals so no longer dependant on hunting

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Domesticate

• Raise in controlled ways, animals or plants
• Dog first

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What were first cities?

• Catalhuyuk (chah tahl hyoo yook) 7000 BC with
  6500 people and Jericho 10,000 BC few thousand

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New Technologies in Villages?

• When to plant created first calendars
• Oxen and water buffalo to plow fields
• Separate workshops where ax heads and arrowheads
  built
• Woven cloth
• Pottery

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• Q. Which beginning city location has the best
  chance at survival? In a desert, in a forest, on
  a hill, by a river, or on the side of a mountain.
  Why?
• A. By a river. Floods deposited silt that made
  river valleys fertile for farming. Constant water
  supplies and easy transportation.

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• Q. How were government and religion closely
  linked in early civilizations?
• A. priests often had the most power. Later,
  rulers claimed that their power came from the
  gods and handed it down to their sons.

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• Q. What are some things that may cause you to
  change part of your culture?
• A. Environmental change, cultural diffusion
  through migration, trade, or warfare

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• Q. How did job specialization lead to the
  emergence of social classes in early
  civilizations?
• A. People tended to live and work with those who
  had the same jobs as themselves, thus forming the
  first social classes. Social rank depended on the
  power and wealth connected to ones job. Priests
  and nobles usually enjoyed the highest status.

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Journal Question!!!

• Thousands of years ago cultural changes took
  hundreds of years to actually occur. Why do you
  think that this change can happen much more
  quickly in todays world??