Prehistory

What is Prehistory?

Period of time before people invented writing

All things older than 5,000 years ago

Studying History

Historians – study and write about the historical past.

Artifacts Primary Sources Secondary Sources Identify Bias

Primary & Secondary Documents and Artifacts Primary documents original works in various media formats.

photographs, drawings, letters, diaries, documents, books, films, posters, play scripts, speeches, songs, sheet music, and first-person accounts that are recorded at the time of an event.

Secondary Documents source created by someone either not present when the event took place or removed by time from the event. Relates to or discusses information originally presented elsewhere

Examples of secondary sources include textbooks, journal articles, histories, and encyclopedias.

Artifacts Objects made by humans Clothing, coins, artwork, and toombstones

Primary Source vs. Secondary Source

Primary Secondary

Original artwork Critique of the artwork

Slave diary Book about underground railroad

Poem Book critique of the poem

Video tape of a performance

Biography about a person

Primary or Secondary

World History text book? Recorded speech of President Kennedy? Web site about the assassination of

Kennedy? Pictures of hieroglyphics? Book about translating hieroglyphics? Diary of WWI soldier? Book about WWI?

Using Artifacts

“Mindwalk Activity”List as many activities as you can remember

participating in during the past 24 hours. For each activity on your list write down what

evidence might have been left behind. What would a future historian be able to

tell about your life and your society based on your daily activities preserved for the future?

Who Else Studies History?

Anthropologist: Ancient cultures and civilizationsArchaeologist: Study past people based on

their material remains.Paleontologist: Specialize in the study of

fossils

Who Else Studies History?YOU DO!!!

Division of Time

1. Explain what these abbreviations mean: B.C. A.D. B.C.E. C.E.

2. Use the following four dates to create a timeline:

1776 A.D. 1492 A.D. 800 B.C. 509 B.C.

Division of Time

1. Explain what these abbreviations mean: B.C. Before Christ A.D. Anno Domini B.C.E. Before Common Era C.E. Common Era

2. Use the following four dates to create a timeline:

509 B.C. 800 B.C. 1492 A.D. 1776 A.D.

Time Line

B.C. and B.C.E.A.D. and C.E.

1000 B.C. 500 B.C. 500 A.D. 1000 A.D.

Write Down the Year your born in the middle of a timeline. Write three events that happened before you were born to the left, but do not put the date but how many years it was before you were born. Put three dates to the right of your birth date and put down the year it occurred after you were born.

B.C. or A.D.? That is the Question

3000 B.C.E.

Egypt Unites

2000 B.C.E. Development of Chinese Writing

44 B.C.E.

Julius Caesar is killed

1215 C.E.

English Magna Carta signed

1776 C..E.

U.S. Declaration of Independence

27 B.C.E.

Octavian becomes ruler of Rome

Timeline Creation 1100 C.E. 800 B.C.E. 1930 A.D. 1803 A.D.

1492 C.E. 776 B.C. 476 C.E. 2500 B.C.E.

2500 2000 1500 1000 500 500 1000 1500 2000 2500

Turning Point

The Neolithic Revolution

Beginnings of Civilization

ELO: I can explain how the world’s first civilization began and developed?

Neolithic Era leads to first civilizations Civilization – Highly complex organized

social orderWhere?

Rivers: water supply, fertility of land, and animals are drawn in

Neolithic Era leads to first civilizations Civilization – Highly complex organized

social orderWhere?

Rivers: water supply, fertility of land, and animals are drawn in

Surpluses were establishedModern economies and cities were created.

Traditional, Mixed, Market, and Command Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Barter

Match the River with the appropriate civilization

a. Egypt

b. India

c. Shang

d. Sumer

1. Yellow

2. Tigris and Euphrates

3. Nile

4. Indus

Why and how civilizations develop

Neolithic people learn to farm Hunters and gatherers settle into communities

Some farmers settle in river valleys, soil is very fertile

Food surpluses created producing larger population

First cities are built Complex forms of government created

Arts more elaborate

Job specialization and social classes

Writing invented Early civilizations conquer neighboring lands