Ch.2 Early Humans: The Story Begins

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Ch.2 Early Humans The Story Begins

• The HuntersThe FarmersThe Agricultural
  RevolutionThe Fertile Crescent

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Glacier

• A large slow-moving mass of ice and snow

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settlement

• A small group of homes in an area
  

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craft

• A trade or art that takes special skill with the
  hands

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Fertile Crescent

• An ancient area of fertile soil from the Nile
  River to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
• Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Turkey,
  Iran and Iraq.

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The Hunters
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• During Ice Age, some groups of people lived in
  the southern parts.
• Spears, simple weapons and tools
• Used wooden sticks, bones and stones NO metal
• Stone Age
• Followed herds of animals
• Animals food and clothing

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The Farmers
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• 10,000 B.C. - Ice Age ended
• Land no longer frozen
• People learn how to grow food.
• People start settling down settlements
• People learned to tame animals.
• Farming began about 11,000 years ago.

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The Agricultural Revolution

• Basis for human civilization
• Settlements in large groups
• Large food supply and staying in one place-
  They began to specialize.
• Time for craft
• Development of different jobs tradingWhat was
  the consequence?
• Villages ? Cities ? small Kingdoms

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The Fertile Crescent

• Rich soil
• Mesopotamia the land between Tigris and
  Euphrates rivers
• Around Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait,
  Lebanon, Israel and Turkey

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Jericho

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How do we know about ancient Jericho?

• One of the seven skulls excavated at the site of
  ancient Jericho
• Pottery excavated (circa 3300-1550 BC)

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Jericho

• One of the earliest towns - oldest walled town in
  the world
• 850 feet below sea level
• Farming village
• Stone wall around the town
• Captured around 7,000 B.C. by unknown people
• Mark Antony once gave it to Cleopatra as a gift.
  

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Farming spread

• By 6,000 B.C. to Europe
• By 4,000 B.C. to China
• Between 5,000 and 2,000 B.C.
  to northern Africa
• People had food and clothing.Now what? Time
  to learn Civilizations grew