The Ice AgeMan Flourishes

15,000-10,000B.C.E.

Essential Standard

• 6.H.2- Understand the political, economic and/or social significance of historical events, issues, individuals and cultural groups.

• 6.G.1- Understand geographic factors that influenced the emergence, expansion and decline of civilizations, societies and regions (i.e. Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas) over time.

Clarifying Objective• 6.H.2.1- Explain how invasions, conquests and migrations

affected various civilizations, societies and regions

• 6.H.2.3- Explain how innovation and/or technology transformed civilizations, societies and regions over time

• 6.G.1.4- Explain how and why civilizations, societies and regions have used, modified and adapted to their environments (e.g., invention of tools, domestication of plants and animals, farming techniques and creation of dwellings).

Essential Question

Ice Age is Born

• 10,000 B.C.E. starts as a slight shift in the Earth’s Axis away from the sun cools the planet

• Average temperatures drop up to 14 degrees F

Ice Age is Born

• 1/3 of the planet is now covered in ice

• Glaciers literally a mile high cover the northern part of Europe & Asia

• The Ice Age is born

Migration During the Ice Age

• Mankind begins to migrate in a new way & new direction

• Mankind migrates over the land bridges of ice that now cover the globe

Migration During the Ice Age• It was during this time that

people were thought to have migrated into Australia from Southeast Asia & to North America from Northeast Asia

• These created independent & new cultures and individual pockets of people all over the globe

Mankind is Challenged Once Again

• Now mankind faces new hardships & challenges

• The climate is now the most challenging thing mankind has ever faced

Mankind is Challenged Once Again• Temperatures that are about

15 degrees & drop down to -40 degrees threaten humankinds existence

• Food is now scarce as there are few roots, berries to gather and few animals to hunt

• Mankind becomes the hunted as other animals need to eat as well

Mankind Faces their First Killing Machine

• Our Greatest Ice Age Enemy

• They have a top speed of 35 MPH

• Jaws bite with 1,500 lbs of force per square inch which is enough to crush bones

Mankind Faces their First Killing Machine

• They hunt in packs and gang up on their prey

• The first killing machine that man faces is the wolf

Domesticating the Wolf• A few wolves have genes that

make them tamer than the rest

• These are the ancestors of all the dogs alive today

• Mankind began throwing these tame wolves scraps of food

• The wolves came back again & again for more scraps

Domesticating the Wolf

• Eventually some wolves come right into the caves where Ice Age people live and the people continue to give them scraps

• Over time (hundreds of years) mankind’s worst Ice Age Enemy becomes Man’s Best Friend

Domesticating the Wolf• Mankind has domesticated it’s first

animal

• Domesticating an animal is changing the animal’s genetic code over hundreds of years by breeding certain animals together

• They breed the animals with favorable traits like (friendliness) this way the baby will be likely to be friendly

• Wolves that are friendly to humans were taken in by mankind to live

Domesticating the Wolf• Mankind then bred the

different wolves together to get a baby wolf that would also be friendly to humans

• The process was done over & over until mankind had an animal that was always friendly (dog)

• Domestication always occurs to benefit humans

Man & Wolf a Deadly Combination• Man has the largest brains

of any species

• Man knows how to track animals and is aware of patterns and where animals will be

• Man can strategize how to trap animals in corners or herd them over cliffs

Man & Wolf a Deadly Combination• The wolf can hunt at night

• The wolf can run up to 35 MPH

• The wolf can hear deer over the horizon hours before humans even become aware that there are even deer in the area

• Man & Wolf are a deadly combination

Domestication Increases Food Source

• The combination of humans and dogs increased food sources during the Ice Age

• Humans would strategize where the herds would be & how to trap them

• The dogs would go & kill them

• Everybody ate. It was the winning combination that helped the human species survive the Ice Age

Mankind Innovates During Ice Age

• In the frozen world of the Ice Age mankind makes leaps of progress forward

• Mankind uses stone caves as homes which are warmed by fires

Mankind Innovates During Ice Age• Animal bones are

sharpened to create the first needles

• Clothing is made by these needles

• The clothing helps trap the heat against our skin so we don’t freeze to death

Mankind Flourishes

• Even as Ice grips the planet the domestication of the dog helps mankind not only survive but flourish

• Mankind has beaten the Ice Age

Ice Age comes to a Close

• Just as mankind has mastered the Ice Age the planet begins to warm again

• Temperatures begin to rise and ice begins to melt

Ice Age comes to a Close• Mankind now

moves/migrates to where the ice has melted in the northern parts of the world to follow animal herd that they and their new partner the dog can hunt

• By 10,000 B.C.E. the human population reaches one million for the first time

Important Points• 6.H.2.1- (Migrations) Migration

played a huge part in the Ice Age as mankind migrated from Asia east into America & South into Australia for the first time over land bridges made of ice

• 6.H.2.1- (Migrations) Mankind also migrated North when the ice sheets began to melt because they were following the herds of animals so they could hunt them

• 6.H.2.3- (Domestication of Animals) The greatest innovation to any weapon during the ice age was the domestication of the wolf into the dog. This gave mankind a new weapon and revolutionized their hunting

• 6.G.1.4- (Domestication of Animals) There are few greater examples of modifying/changing your environment than the domestication of the wolf. The wolf changed from man’s worst enemy to man’s best friend