Warm-up: Friday• Vocab. Review

1.Get out your paper from yesterday

• Do we know for sure that humans originated in Africa? Why or why not?

Vocabulary________________ = period of time before writing was invented_______________________ = “wise, wise human being”; a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; they were the first anatomically modern humans_______________________= study of past societies by analyzing what people left behind (artifacts)_______________________= tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings, household items, etc.______________________= study of human life and culture; use artifacts and human fossils to determine how people lived their lives

prehistory

homo sapiens sapiens

Archaeology

artifact

anthropology

Paleolithic Age• Use the information to complete the chart!

• When finished, draw a picture representing the Paleolithic Age (see back)

Modern Hunters• Brazil (1 minute) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38oh8vB0ufI

• BBC Kalahari hunt – 7 minutes• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o

Paleolithic Age• Paleo Diet:

• http://ultimatepaleoguide.com/paleo-diet-food-list/• http://thepaleodiet.com/getting-started-with-the-paleo-diet/

Warm-up: MondayCopy the “need to know” words for your quiz on Friday!

• Primary source• Secondary source• Paleolithic Age• Neolithic Revolution• prehistory• Nomad• Civilization• Mesopotamia• Domestication

Also know:•Dates and time in history•Location of river valley civilizations

Review: Paleolithic Age

Domestication• Domestication is the act of altering wild plants or animals through

deliberate breeding for human use. An essential aspect of civilization, domestication of both plants and animals began in approximately 10,000 BCE. The domestication of plants spurred on large-scale farming and thus permitted some people to give up the constant pursuit of food to specialize in other types of work. As a result, the first villages and cities formed. The domestication of animals, including cows, horses, and pigs, gave great impetus to the development of farming. Domesticated animals were also used for protection and food and as companions. Domesticated plants and animals are genetically different from their wild ancestors and are often altered in both appearance and behavior.

Zebu

Banteng

Neolithic Age

1. Read comic

2. Complete chart using the class set of information

3. Complete your drawings!

Neolithic Revolution - Transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural society (farming and herding)

Warm-up: Tuesday

Who do you think had the better quality of life, hunter-gatherers or agriculturalists? Explain.

Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

• Progressivist view

(farming is better)

• Revisionist view

(hunting and gathering is better)

Instructions

With your group: •Read the article •Complete the T-chart as a group.•On the back: Write a thesis for the article you read (Diamond’s argument)•Also include group member’s names

Warm-up: Wednesday• Watch the video clip about Stonehenge:

http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/stonehenge/videos/true-purpose-of-stonehenge

• Write 3 pieces of information from the video.

1.

2.

3.

Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human RaceProgressivist view (farming = good!)

• Abundant and varied foods• Best tools and goods• Longest and healthiest lives• Efficient way to get more food for

less work (planted crops yield more)

• Flowering of art• Food can be stored• More free time• More food = can support more

people

• Hunting and gathering = life is nasty, brutish, short

Revisionist view (farming = bad!)• Better balanced nutrition because of varied

diet• Farmers = increase in malnutrition (ex:

people taller before)• Farmers = most food comes from one or a

few starchy crops• If crop fails = run risk of starvation• Crowded societies = spread of parasites

and disease• Deep class divisions in farming societies,

which cannot happen in H & G societies (an elite became better off, most people became worse off)

• Inequality between the sexes • Example: Kalahari Bushmen Article

Thesis of article – what is his argument

• Your responses…

• What’s written in the first paragraph:

“In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.”

Your Task• Answer the following on a sheet of notebook paper:

Do you agree or disagree with Diamond’s argument? (The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race)

Explain in a paragraph, minimum 5 sentences.

When you are finished, please turn in and pick up the handout on the back table.