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Prehistory 10,000 BC to 1400
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Climate stability following the Ice Age in 10,000 BC created
cultural changes.
Hunter / Gathering becomes “civilizations” with agriculture.
Increase knowledge and technology (irrigation!), and
transportation.
Agriculture (farming) and domestication (keeping
animals)increases because population increased, need food.
Fertile Crescent, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient
China, Rome = ancient civilizations.
Civilization = writing, social hierarchy, government,
defense, trade.
Prehistory 10,000 BC to 1400
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Video Questions:
Why is farming important following the Ice Age?
What was an important animal to domesticate
and why?
Connect crops to 1. Armies, 2. Government, 3.
Writing
How does population increase change societies?
• Vocab:
Prehistory
Connections
Silk Road: Trade route in silk and spices (mustard, cinnamon) between
China and Rome.
Absolute Monarchy - form of govt in which king/queen exercises
ultimate governing authority; his or her powers are not limited by a
constitution or law. They have unrestricted political power over the
sovereign state and its people.
Agriculture/below:
Writing,
• Hunter/
Draw the relationships
Gathering ->
Domestication
->
Bronze Tools /
Weapons (Heavy)
Iron tools /
weapons
(lighter, more
advance = body
Empires
Armies, Govt. (monotheism,
and
monarchies)
Technology
(wheel,
irrigation) ->
Gunpowder
Revolution (guns)
Prehistory 10,000 BC to 1400
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Video Questions:
What is the Silk Road, and what was traded along
it?
What happened as the disconnected world
became more “connected”?
Why were trading hubs along the Silk Road
important?
How did the innovation from bronze to iron
affect the world?