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Monday- Chapter 1-

Before Christ and anna Domini
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old
Africa specifically Tanzania, Ethiopia, and recently Morocco
Inventions of tools, mastery of fire, development of language, inventions of wheels, invention of boats, art.

Louis and Mary Leakey

Donald Johanson

Discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia named Lucy in 1974
This was the oldest known hominid remains found until 2015

Tuesday- Video

Wednesday- Video

Thursday-

Earliest homo sapiens

found in Morocco June, 2017
Oldest homo sapiens fossils found so far
- previous oldest was 150,000 years ago
- these fossils date back 300,000-350,00 years ago
Prior to more organized agriculture, people were nomadic and hunted animals and gathered plants- hunter gathers
They lived in groups of about 25-70 people
Nobody knows exactly how things changed, but about 10,000 years ago people started more organized farming.
Along with planting crops, people also domesticated animals such as horses, dogs, goats, and pigs

Friday-

As the temperature went up the population went up also.
As time went on the small villages become bigger and turn into towns and cities
As cities emerged more complex thinking and living emerged leading to civilization
As cities grew social classes emerged
Book definition of Civilization- An advanced state of human society in winch high level of culture science

The Five Traits of a civilization

Questions to consider

What are natural borders
What are some natural boundaries that would be helpful to an early civilization
Why are defensible borders important for a civilization to thrive
Arose in 4 separate river valleys around 3500 B.C.
Fertile soil, mild climate, waterway for transportation , water for crops and drinking

Chapter 2

Blogs