Chalkboard Lesson
Era 1
The Beginnings of
Human Society
Blueprint Skill: History Grade 6
• Recognize major historical
time periods (i.e., Early
Civilizations, Classical Period,
Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and
Renaissance).
• Era 1
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Blueprint Skill: History Grade 6
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Agricultural
Revolution
Humanity’s
Story
The
Stone
Age
The
Peopling
of the
Earth
Ages
Humanity’s Story
• So far as we know, humanity’s
story began in Africa.
• For millions of years it was
mainly a story of biological
change.
• Then some hundreds of
thousands of years ago our early
ancestors began to form and
manipulate useful tools.
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Humanity’s Story
• Eventually they mastered
speech.
• Unlike most other species,
early humans gained the
capacity to learn from one
another and transmit
knowledge from one
generation to the next.
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Humanity’s Story
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The hunter-gatherer society lived
in clans and were nomadic
Nomadic groups were people
who have no fixed home and
move according to the seasons
from place to place in search of
food, water, and grazing land.
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Humanity’s Story
• Archaeologists have found
the remains of what may
have been the first tools
used by humans in East
Africa.
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Humanity’s Story
• Stone tools were the most
common tools until about
12,000 years ago.
Flint
Tools
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The Stone Age
• The period of time when people
used simple stone tools is called
the Old Stone Age or Paleolithic
Era.
• During the Old Stone Age, people
also learned to make fire.
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The New Stone Age
• The period of time when people
began to settle permanently in one
location is called the Neolithic Era,
or the New Stone Age.
• In the Paleolithic age, men were
hunters and gathers. In the
Neolithic age, people became
scavengers, herders, farmers, or
producers.
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The New Stone Age
• People were able to live in larger
groups.
• They learned to domesticate plants
and animals.
• This meant they also learned which
plants provided a higher yield and
how to breed animals to better suit
their needs.
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Ages
• 2.5 million to 8000 BCE Paleolithic
- old stone age (cave art, fire,
hominids (earlier human like
creatures), stone tools, nomads,
hunters and gathers)
• B.C. - the time period before Jesus
was born
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Ages
• 8,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE Neolithic new stone age (looms for weaving,
domesticate animals, agriculture,
people shifted from hunting and
gathering to agriculture and
herding)
• Age of the Earth - 4 to 5 billion
years
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Ages
• Mesolithic Age - created pottery
• Ice Age - long period of cold
climate
• Stonehenge - archaeological site
begun in the Neolithic Age and
completed in the Bronze Age
• PREHISTORY - time before written
history
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The Peopling of the Earth
• The first great global event was
the peopling of the earth and the
astonishing story of how
communities of hunters,
foragers, or fishers adapted
creatively and continually to a
variety of contrasting, changing
environments in Africa, Eurasia,
Australia, and the Americas.
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The Peopling of the Earth
• Anthropology - the study of the
remains/skeletons/bones of people
• Archaeologists - people who study
things USED by people who lived a
long time ago; eating utensils,
houses, tools
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The Peopling of the Earth
• Archaeology - the study of things
used by people who lived a long
time ago; tools, eating utensils,
homes
• Culture – the ideas, beliefs, and
customs of a group of people.
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The Agricultural Revolution
• Over a period of several
thousand years and as a result
of countless small decisions,
humans learned how to grow
crops, domesticate plants, and
raise animals.
• The earliest agricultural
settlements probably arose in
Southwest Asia, but the
agricultural revolution spread
round the world.
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The Agricultural Revolution
• Human population began to soar
relative to earlier times.
• Communities came into regular
contact with one another over
longer distances, cultural
patterns became far more
complex, and opportunities for
innovation multiplied.
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The Agricultural Revolution
• One reason people migrated
from place to place was the
search of food.
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The Agricultural Revolution
• Early man developed farming and
herding because it provided a
reliable source of food, man was
not as dependent on nature and
man was no longer nomadic.
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The Agricultural Revolution
• Early man’s crops consisted of
wheat, potatoes, rice and maize
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The Agricultural Revolution
• The earliest known
permanent agricultural
community was
established in:
Mesopotamia near the
Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers.
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The Agricultural Revolution
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The development of agriculture
took place during the Neolithic
Age.
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Resources
• World History Standards
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Test your knowledge of Era 1!
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