Period I 8000 BCE – 600 BCE

BIG IDEA

THE CHANGE FROM PALEOLITHIC TO NEOLITHIC SOCIETIES

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PALEOLITHIC SOCIETY?

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEOLITHIC SOCIETY?

Write a thesis statement: Compare and contrast Paleolithic Societies to Neolithic Societies from 8000 BCE to 600 BCE

The First Migrations

Describe each migration and the similarities or differences they may have shared:

INTO EURASIAINTO AUSTRALAINTO THE AMERICASINTO THE PACIFIC

The First Societies

How did societies differ? What were their religious beliefs? Was there an economic structure? What were their social structures? What were their political structures?

Social Variations

What are characteristics of a PASTORAL SOCIETY?

What are characteristics of an AGRICULTURAL VILLAGE SOCIETY?

What are characteristics of a CHIEFDOM?

FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

OLMEC CIVILIZATION

NORTE CHICO

NILE VALLEY = EGYPT, NUBIA

MESOPOTAMIA

OXUS

INDUS VALLEY

SHANG DYNASTY

EGYPT VS MESOPOTAMIA

EROSION OF EQUALITY

HIERARCHIES OF CLASSHIERARCHIES OF GENDERPATRIARCHY

IMPORTANCE OF THE STATE

WRITING AND ACCOUNTING

GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

ROLE OF KINGS

LET’S TALK A LITTLE VOCAB… Period I Vocab – Part I

Venus figurines

Dreamtime

Clovis culture

Mega faunal extinction

Human migrations

“the original affluent society”

Shamans

Gobekli Tepe

Fertile Crescent

“secondary products revolution” - specialization

Pastoral societies

Chiefdoms

Catalhuyuk

Paleolithic/Neolithic Shift

Period I Vocab – Part II

Norte Chico/Caral

Indus Valley civilization

Olmec civilization

Uruk

Mohenjo Daro/Harappa

Epic of Gilgamesh

Code of Hammurabi

Patriarchy

Rise of the state

How bout some crash course…

The Switch to agricultural societies

Indus Valley

Mesopotamia

The Epic of Gilgamesh