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
- Leakey's
- Louis and Mary Leakey, Donald Johanson, Recent Scientists(Name??)
- 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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