Transcript Culture and Civilization 0809 Wk3

History of the Ancient and
Medieval World
Prehistory: Culture and Civilization
Walsingham Academy
Mrs. McArthur
Room 111
Fact File
Approximately:
– 2,5000,000 BCE - Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
– 10,000 BCE - New Stone Age (Neolithic)
– 5,000 BCE - First Civilizations
What conclusions can one draw from these dates?
Anthropologists to have heard of:
– Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey (Olduvai Gorge,
Tanzania)
– Donald Johanson (“Lucy”)
For transcript, see text, pp. 4
Assignment 1
Read handouts (2 pages) and answer accompanying
questions,
– Donald Johanson-Biography
– Dawn of History
Remember: Put your work on a separate sheet of paper.
Include:
– Your name and period
– Answers written in complete sentences.
Take a Virtual Field Trip to Lascaux, France
Check it out!
Project Due Date: Friday, September 5
“Staging”: A Useful Tool
It is really hard to summarize man’s long
evolution.
We surmise that:
• it was gradual but…
• it spread across the globe at different rates and in
different ways at different times.
Social Scientists learn about this long period using
many indirect as well as direct methods.
The Neolithic Revolution
Some historians have argued that this step was
the most significant stage in man’s evolution
not rivaled until the Industrial Revolution.
1. How did the transition from nomadic life to
one of permanent settlement take place?
2. Why was this role crucial to the emergence
of civilization?
For transcripts, see text, pp. 11 and 17
Civilization
• From Latin root civ- (city, civic, citizen, civil)
• Cities emerged as result of the Neolithic
Revolution in the Middle East about 5,000
years ago.
• The basic features of civilization are
interlocking and mark all civilizations.
• How are “culture” and “civilization” related?
Assignment 2
• Read photocopy, Beginnings of
Civilization.
• Auto-Test: Complete the chart on next
slide.
Project Due Date: Friday, September 5
Beginnings of Civilization
Civilization’s basic features
Assignment 3
(1) Complete project.
Remember our discussion about
technology and meeting deadlines!
(2) Quiz
(3) Optional X-Credit Project
Quiz 1: Overview
Note: Bring colored Pencils
• Historical Time: In what 2 ways might a
historian express time? For what
purpose(s.)
• What is culture? How is it spread-across
time and place?
• Prehistoric Early Peoples: Paleolithic vs.
Neolithic
Quiz 1: Overview, cont.
• Inter-dependence of social sciences:
(geography, history, anthropology,
archaeology, political science, economics,
statistics, psychology, sociology)
• What is civilization and how is it different
from culture?
10 themes of history (project) Not on Test
Assignment 4
• Read handout: What is the West?
• What is a paradox? (Use a dictionary)
• What is the simplest definition of The West?
• How and why has the geographic setting of this
term changed?
• How has the definition of this word changed over
time? Give two examples.
Black Ships Before Troy: Due Sept. 15