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Chapter 1-2 Study Guide
Social Studies 7
Burnette & Davis
Fall 2013
ER 1 – Domestication
• Domestication is making plants and
animals useful to humans
• Plants=year round food supply, surplus,
eliminate the need to gather over long
distances
• Animals=power supply, protection, and
food supply
• Impact = allowed for people to settle
• Created a stable food supply
ER 2 – Impact Today
• Development of cities and towns
• Farmers raise livestock for meat and milk
• Farmers grow crops according to climate
and season
• Development of farming technology over
time (plows, harvesters, irrigation systems,
hybrid foods, etc)
MC 1 - Historians
• Historians are interested in studying the
knowledge, beliefs, and customs of people
MC 2 - Archaeologists
• Archaeologists are interested in things that
people leave behind throughout history.
• Study sites such as ancient battle fields,
settlements, and burial grounds.
MC 3 – What does history teach…?
• History teaches people about their past.
• History teaches people about how their
government came into existence.
• History acknowledges triumphs and
tragedies.
MC 4 - Culture
• Culture is the beliefs, customs, and art of a
group of people
MC 5 – Primary Sources
• A primary source is an account of an event
created by someone who took part in the
event.
• Examples of primary sources are treaties,
letters, diaries, laws, court documents, and
royal commands
MC 6 – Secondary Source
• A secondary source is information
gathered by someone who did not take
part in or witness an event.
• Examples of secondary sources are
textbooks, journal articles, and
encyclopedias.
• These are often Historian’s opinions on
events.
MC 7 – Historians Interpret
• Sometimes, historians interpret events
differently because of they form different
opinions about the primary sources they
study.
MC 8 – Studying History Helps
• Studying history leads you to ask
important questions.
• Studying history forces you to analyze
facts.
• Studying history helps you identify main
facts.
MC 9 – Early Man
• Early forms of man are known as
HOMINIDS.
• These are the ancestors of modern man.
MC 10 – Stages of human
development
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Homo habilis = “handy man”
Homo erectus = “upright man”
Homo sapiens = “wise man”
All modern humans today are Homo
sapiens.
MC 11 - Tools
• Tools helped early humans because they
increased the chances for survival.
MC 12 – First skill…
• Early humans developed first the ability to
make tools.
• Once they developed tools, many parts of
their daily lives were made easier.
MC 13 - Society
• A society is a community of people who
share a common culture.
MC 14 – Three reasons language
developed
• Language was developed to make hunting
easier.
• Language was developed to form new
relationships.
• Language was developed to resolve
issues like distributing food.
MC 15 – Tools of Middle Stone Age
• People developed more complex tools like
fishing hooks and fishing spears out of
wood and bone.
MC 16 – Which Stone Age…
Religion?
• Historians and archaeologists believe that
the first ideas of religion were developed in
the OLD STONE AGE (or, the Paleolithic
Era) from the Cave Art paintings.
MC 17 – Ice Ages
• Early humans were forced to move to new
environments as the result of the Ice
Age!!!
MC 18 – Three Stone Ages
• PALEOLITHIC (Old Stone Age) – simple
stone tools used for cutting and scraping,
cave paintings (art & religion), early
language
• MESOLITHIC (Middle Stone Age) –
animal skin clothing, shelters and more
complex tools out of wood and bone
• NEOLITHIC (New Stone Age) -domestication of plants and animals,
settlement, learned how to make fire
MC 19 – Clothing & Shelter
• People needed better clothing and shelter
as they migrated out of Africa because
they needed more protection to survive in
colder areas.
MC 20 – Neolithic Revolution
• The Neolithic Revolution is defined as the
time in history where there was a shift
from food gathering to food producing.
• People slowly stopped relying only on
hunting and gathering for their food supply
and began raising animals and crops.
MC 21 - Farming
• With the development of farming, people
were able to create settlements and build
permanent shelters
MC 22 – List the order of
settlements
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
AFRICA
EUROPE & ASIA
AUSTRALIA
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
MC 23 – Settlement of N. Amer
• A land bridge over the Bering Strait
thousands of years ago aided in the
settlement of North America. This land
bridge connected Russia and Alaska.
MC 24 - Megaliths
• Megaliths are large stone monuments that
historians believe were used during
religious ceremonies and as monuments
to early gods and goddesses during the
Neolithic Era.