From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations

AP World HistoryChapter I

Early Areas of Human Occupation and Migration

The Iceman4000 BCE

How does this picture portray the

environment in which he lived?

The technology he used?

His way of life?

Early Centers of Plant and Animal Domestication

Passage-Tomb at Newgrange, Ireland

3200 BCE

What does this structure indicate about the religious beliefs, community

structure about NewGrange?

Neolithic Goddess at Catal Huyuk

6000 BCE

What does this figure represent?

How can it be linked to the

power structure and belief

systems of the community?

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization on Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8v2vRlLL58

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamian Cylinder Seal2350 BCE

What does this seal depict? How and why was the seal used?

*Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year’s Festival

Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu2100 BCE

What does the architecture of the ziggurat suggest about the Sumerian culture?

Ancient Egypt

Model of Egyptian River Boat1985 BCE

How and why was this ship suited for Egypt?

River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 BCE