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Ch. 1
Essential Question:
1. In what way did the Neolithic Revolution lead to new and more complex economic and social systems within human societies after 10,000 BCE?
2. To what extent did the characteristics of human populations change from c. 8000 BCE to c. 600 BCE? (Consider size, location, and manner of accumulating food and shelter.)
3. What changes (planned or unplanned) did humans make to the natural environment resulting from the advent of agriculture and urban civilizations in this era?
Objectives:
- Describe the relationship of geography and climate to human migration, settlement, and interaction, and to list some causes and effects of that relationship.
- Connect environmental and climatic effects on modes of economic organization, such as foraging, fishing, agricultural and pastoral economies.
- Identify the environmental effects of the transition to agriculture on the environment around villages and urban centers in river valley and non-river valley societies.
- Use evidence to show social and cultural consequences of early agricultural and pastoral life.
- Link the increasing complexity of political and religious structures with the development and transformation of social and gender structures in early agricultural, pastoral, and urban societies.
- Compare the emergence of the first states within the core civilizations
Links:
-Guns, Germs, and Steel Movie (Google if links do not work)
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