Week of Aug. 22-26

Monday-  Was still summer

Tuesday- First day of School/ Introductions

Wednesday-Finish introductions

Thursday-Go over rules and expectations

Friday-

  • What is world history? BC and AD?
    • Before Christ and anno Domini(Latin for "in the year of our lord')
  • How old is the earth?
    • 4.6 billion years
  • Where were the oldest human fossils found?
    • Africa-Specifically Tanzania and Ethiopia 
  • Who found the oldest human fossils?
    • Louis and Mary Leakey, Donald Johanson, Recent Scientists(Name??)
      • Leakey's
        • Searched for HOMINID remains in Tanzania from the 1930s-1970s 
        • Found human like fossils in 1959 in the Olduvai Gorge
      • 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 found until 2015
  • What are some of the biggest achievements in world history?
    • Invention of tools, mastery of fire, development of language, invention of wheels, invention of boats(the sail), art
  • Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution 
    • Prior to more organized agriculture, people were nomadic and hunted animals and gathered plants- hunter gatherer
    • They lived in groups of about 25-70 people
    • No one 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
  • As time went on, people started setting up villages, which then, over time, turned into towns and then some cities
  • As cities emerged, more complex ways of thinking and living emerged leading to civilization
  • As cities grew social classes emerged
  • Civilization
    • An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached
  • The five traits of a Civilization
    • Advances cities
    • Writing/Record keeping
    • Specialized workers
    • Complex institutions 
    • Advanced technology

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