Warm-Up
Take out your student information sheet
and make sure it is completely filled in.
1. What do you think is the difference between
history and prehistory?
2. Which source would be more biased,
primary or secondary?
3. Define the words on the board in ten words
or less.

You and your partner must decipher which
sources are primary sources and which
sources are secondary sources.

Write down evidence supporting your
argument on the piece of paper
underneath you warm up.
Partner Activity
Prehistory and the
Neolithic Revolution
Chapter 1
I.
Early Man
A. Prehistory- The time before human writing
A.
B.
Archeologists- fossils, artifacts
Anthropologists- human knowledge, culture,
beliefs, customs
B. History- An
interpretation of
the record of
human events
A.
B.
C.
Study broad
patterns,
periods, cause
and effect
Primary
sources:
diaries,
speeches, laws
Secondary
sources:
commentaries,
interpretations
C. Paleolithic
Era- Old Stone
Age
1. Early
humans lived
as nomads,
migrating
around the
world during
the Ice Ages
2. Huntergathererspeople who
get their
food from
hunting
animal herds
and
gathering
plant foods
II.
Neolithic Era
A. Lasted from 8000 BC to 3000 BC
B. Neolithic Revolution- the transition from
nomadic lifestyle to settled communities with
larger populations

On the “World Map” page try to identify
each major continent and ocean labeled.

If you have any additional time please try
to ID the additional numbers I have
labeled on the board.
Map Activity
Warm-Up
1. In some rivervalleys, reliable
food production
allowed huntergatherers to slowly
settle
2. Domesticationgrowing/breeding
plants and animals
to be more useful
to humans
3. Some chose to live
as pastoralistsnomads with herds
of domesticated
animals
C.
Transitions in
society
1. Agriculture and
domestication
allowed for
permanent
settlements that grew
in size and
complexity
2. Reliable, storable
food helped create a
surplus
3. Because not everyone
needed to get food,
division of laboreach worker
specializes at a
particular job
III. Development
of Civilization
A. Agricultural
advancements
let villages grow
in size and
complexity,
creating cities.
B. Civilizationcomplex and
organized
societies
centered in river
valleys
C. Characteristics:
1. Developed cities
2. Organized gov’t
3. Formalized religion
4. Specialization of labor
5. Social classes
6. Writing
7. Art and Architecture
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I=1

V=5

X=10

L=50
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C=100
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D=500

M=1000
Roman Numerals!