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EARLY PEOPLE & EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction• People have 3 basic needs

foodclothingshelter

• Earliest people satisfied these needs from the environment

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction• FOOD , CLOTHING &

SHELTER Earliest people were hunter-gatherersHunted wild game & gathered variety of plants for foodAnimal hides were used for clothing

Men hunted and fishedWomen gathered foods that grew in the environment

Shelter would most likely have been caves, rock shelters or coverings made from branches and animal skins.

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction• NOMADS

People worked in groups as it was easer to collect and share resources – family clans were formedWhen a clan had used food up in one area, they moved to another

They migrated to new locations to follow food sourcesThere was great dependence on the natural environment

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction•TECHNOLOGY

•Humans knew that fire could be made by examining how lightning caused fires. •Early people created fire by rubbing sticks together and learned how to keep embers burning of which they could start a new fire.•The discovery of fire is one of the most important events in human history.

Mr. Terry’sGreatest Discoveries in

History• Fire

• Bacon

• Polio Vaccine

• Penguins being

jerks

• Online Gaming

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction•Fire was important as it

provided:•Light•Heat•Protection•Means for cooking and tempering tools

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

Early Human & Environment Interaction•Hunting and Gathering

became easier when early people learned to make tools

Early tools were simple implements from the environment such as sticks, stones and animal bonesMore complex tools developed with flint spearheads and metal tools

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE

• Scarcity of resources in the area led to development of agriculture

Learning to grow food from plant seeds

Most likely learned it from seeing new shoots grow upLed to raising food instead of gathering it

EARLY PEOPLE & CIVILIZATIONS

BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE• Scarcity of resources in the area led to

development of agricultureLearning to herd animals

Hunters learned to capture animals in ravines or enclosures (fences) – they saw they could be herded! Animals became domesticated (trained) and used for human purposes Sheep, goats and cattle were domesticated for meat and milk while pack animals (donkeys, camels etc) were trained to move and carry loads

So what animals CAN be domesticated?

• Animals provide food, clothing, milk, tools (bones and teeth), and they can do work (ride horses, oxen pull heavy plows for farming)

• Best domesticated animals, or beast of burden, are large, plant eating mammals.

• Have offspring within 1st or 2nd year (so we can eat mama and papa this year and then eat kids NEXT year)

• Must have social hierarchy (control the leader and control the pack)

What kinds of animals?• Must play well with humans

• Sheep, goats, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, cattle, mythas (whatever that is).

• “But Mr. Terry, why can’t we ride duh Zebras? Dey be like horses just in pajamas!”• Some animals are skittish• Evolved in environment with predators, jumpy and too

defensive.• Same goes for elephants and other African giants like the

giraffe (natures dumbest looking animal).

Giraffe?• Have you ever seen one of these

things?

• With their stupid long necks (oh, you can eat the tree tops, good for you, I can eat a smash burger)

• Stupid flat teeth

• Have to keep their head above their stomachs at all times or choke

• Spots (oooh, you are really blending into your environment, Mr. Giraffe, with your 1,000 pound body and GIANT FREAK NECK!)

• …and horns? You have HORNS for some reason?