Why Did European Civilization Develop Differently Than African

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Why did European Civilization

Develop Differently than African

Civilization?

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Social StudiesStandards Met

STAIR Objective

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Benchmark SOC.I.1.HS.3Identify some of the major eras in world historyand describe their defining characteristics.

Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.1Explain how major world processes affectdifferent world regions.

Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.4Describe major patterns of economicdevelopment and political systems and explainsome of the factors causing them.

Standards


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Objectives

Students will understand how geography playeda significant role in Africa and Europesdevelopment

Students will understand how the developmentof agriculture and animal domestication leads togreater complex civilizations

Students will understand how complexcivilizations have advantages over less complexcivilizations


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The Major Ironic Questionto Think About

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The Agriculture

AdvantageGeography

Matters

Help Amani

Activity

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last Click)


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Africa is known as the cradle of mankind. It is here that human life first

began. Some time around 100,000 to 50,000 years ago some people

started slowly moving out of Africa and into the Middle East, Europe,

Asia, and Australia.

Click for

Major Ironic

Question

Africa - where

humans first

lived

Archeologistshave found the

earliest human

remains here


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If humans lived in Africa

before they lived

anywhere else in the

world, then why were

Europeans the first todevelop a civilization that

allowed them to conquer

and exploit Africa,

instead of Africansdeveloping a civilization

that allowed them to

conquer and exploit

Europeans?

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Understanding Check

Doesnt it seem like Africans would have the

development advantage over Europeans

because they lived on the same land for

thousands of year longer? Wouldnt this give

them more time to be settled and develop

technology that could eventually help themconquer Europeans and the rest of the world?


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What is the ironic question that this

activity is going to answer?

A) Why did the civilizations of the Middle East and Europe develop ina way that allowed them to conquer and exploit Africa, despiteAfrican development having thousands of years head start

B) Why did the civilizations of Africa develop in a way that allowed

them to conquer and exploit the Middle East and Europe, despiteEuro/Middle Eastern development having a thousands of yearshead start

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Review MajorIronic Question


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Correct!Remember!!! The irony is that the people of Africa lived there for thousands of

years before people ever moved into the Middle East and Europe. But despite the

head start in civilization development, it would be the people of the Middle East

and Europe who developed their civilizations in a way that eventually was able toconquer and exploit Africa

Ab t 10 000


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About 10,000 years ago a

major difference

occurred amongst those

people living in Africaand those people living

in the regions of the

Middle East and Europe.

This difference was:

The

development of

agriculture andanimal

domestication


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But while this development in farming 10,000 years ago

took place in parts of the Middle East and Europe. The

people of Africa remained hunting and gathering their food

for another 5,000 years

Whi h A f th ld th


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Which Area of the world was the

first to develop agriculture and

animal domestication?

A) Africa

B) Europe/Middle EastD) None of the above


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Correct!


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So Why Does It Matter Who Developed

Agriculture First?

Click When Ready To Play

The Development GameObjective:Help the hunter/gatherer Grog find enough

food to stay alive and develop his civilization

Rules:

1) Choose from one of three hunting/gathering areasto go and look for food

2) Some areas will have food. Others will not. If you

dont find food your hunger meter will decrease. If

you find food it will increase.

3) Each time you go hunting you will spend the entireday walking to the area and hunting/gathering for

food

4) After each day click on the Caesar icon to see how

his civilization's development is doing in the

Middle East/Europe part of the world

Grog

(Hunter/Gatherer)

Caesar

(Farmer/Animal

Domesticator)


15/60Starving Hungry Full

Choose

which area I

should huntand gather in

Food Bar:



I just spent a

whole day

hunting and

gathering

but I foundnothing

Hows

Caesars

Development?


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Choose

which area I

should hunt

and gather in



I just spent awhole day

hunting and

gathering but I

found nothing.

Now Im starving!

Hows

Caesars

Development?



Its nice to know that when you

grow and raise your own food,you can stay in one place. Now I

can build a home to live in instead

of always having to move where

the food is. And now Ive got

extra time to invent weapons that

will be able to kill anyone whotries to rob my farm, animals, or

home!

Return to

Hunting/Gathering

with Grog



Choose

which area I

should hunt

and gather in


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Starving Hungry Full Extra Food To Trade

Its nice to know that when you grow and

raise your own food, you can stay in one

place. Now I can build a home to live in

instead of always having to move where

the food is. And now Ive got extra time to

invent weapons that will be able to kill

anyone who tries to rob my farm, animals,

or home. Now my farm has produced extra

food that I can use as a trade good. Withall this trading Ive now invented a method

of writing so that I can keep track of my

financial accounts.

Return to

Hunting/Gathering

with Grog


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Starving Hungry Full

Choose

which area I

should hunt

and gather in


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I just spent awhole day

hunting and

gathering but I

found nothing.

Now Im starving!

Hows

Caesars

Development?


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Starving Hungry Full Extra Food To Trade

Its nice to know that when you grow and raise

your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I

can build a home to live in instead of always

having to move where the food is. And now Ive

got extra time to invent weapons that will be ableto kill anyone who tries to rob my farm, animals,

or home. Now my farm has produced extra food

that I can use as a trade good. With all this

trading Ive now invented a method of writing so

that I can keep track of my financial accounts.

This invention of writing has allowed me and

other people to start writing laws so that we can

live amongst each other peacefully, and help fight

off other cities that we dont agree with.

Return toHunting/

Gathering

with Grog


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Choose which

area I should

hunt and gather

in


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I just spent a whole day

hunting and gathering

but I found nothing. If Idont eat soon Im going

to die. I better leave this

entire area and hope to

find food somewhere

else.

Hows

Caesars

Development?


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Grog? Grog? Wheres Grog?

Hes probably either died from

starvation, moved on to areas where he

can find food, been killed by Caesar and

his army, or taken as Caesars slave.

Wh t d t did C i ili ti


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What advantage did Caesars civilization

have over Grogs, that helped his

civilization develop faster?

A) Caesars civilization did not have any advantages

B) Caesars civilization had agriculture, which meant they had a steadyfood source. This allowed them to stay in the same place and nothave to constantly worry about where their next meal would comefrom. Having a constant food supply allowed his civilization the extratime to start developing other technologies

C) From the beginning, Caesars civilization had better weapons than

Brogs civilization. Thus they were able to conquer them

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Correct!

The humans living in the Middle East and Europe developedagriculture first. This meant that they stopped the nomadic lifestyle of living wherever there was a source of food. Once thehumans had a constant, dependable source of food, theycould stay put and spend their extra time not on having toworry about food, but instead building homes and inventing

new technologies like weapons or writing. These technologieswould continue to build upon each other until the societies inthe Middle East and Europe were vastly more complex in termsof technology and the ability to conquer and explore otherparts of the world.


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Geography Matters

Geography of

Crops

Geography of

Animals

Choose

Of all the plants in the world only a few have allowed


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Of all the plants in the world, only a few have allowed

themselves to be grown in large numbers which will then

yield a product that can be consumed for food.

For the people of the

Middle East and

Europe, the crops of

wheat and barely

happened to be nativeto these areas.

Africa too had its own native crops such as yams


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Africa too had its own native crops such as yams

and millets. But these native crops were not

develop into agriculture until a few thousand years

after the people of the Middle East and Europe werealready growing their own food.

Yams? Wheat? Whats the


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Yams? Wheat? What s the

difference? Its all just food.

Actually, the people of the

Middle East and Europe hadthe geographic advantage of

being on a landmass that is

heavily oriented towards the

direction longitude. Whereas

the African continent is moreoriented towards latitude.

Latitude lines on the map that go horizontally across Latitude is


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Latitude lines on the map that go horizontally across. Latitude is

measured from the equator, with positive values going north

and negative values going south

Longitudelines on the map that go up and down. Longitude

is measured from the Prime Meridian (which is the longitude

that runs through Greenwich, England) with positive values

going east and negative values going west.

This is the

equator a lineof latitude that

moves north

and south

This is the Prime

Meridian a line oflongitude that

moves east and

west

Q i k Q ti


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The lines on this earth are:

A)Latitude Lines

B) Longitude Lines

Quick Question:

C t!


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Correct!

What do you think would cause you to


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What do you think would cause you to

experience a more dramatic change in

temperature? Moving from latitude tolatitude or longitude to longitude?

A) Latitude

B) Longitude

Correct!


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Correct!Moving latitudes can increase or decrease the temperatures that a person feels

more significantly than moving longitudes. Every time a person moves latitudes

they move either further away or closer to the equator, which is the hottest area

on the earth. Therefore, if a person moves away from the equator thetemperatures get colder, and if they move towards it, the temperatures get

hotter.

Equator

Whereas moving

between longitudes

keeps a person in the

relatively same

climate/temperature

zones.

How Does latitude and longitude affect crops?


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The Wheat, Yam, Barley, and Millet Game

Objective:

Pick the two crops that will be able to travel across the most land

area and still be planted. If your crops fades (dies) you

chose poorly.

The game is on your honor (you can click on them all if you want).

Click the arrow button when youre done

How Does latitude and longitude affect crops?

Wheat Yam Barely Millet


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Think about the game Which crops


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Think about the game. Which crops

were more likely to spread across

the land?A) The Crops in the Middle East/Europe

B) The Crops in Africa


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Considering how crops react to


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Considering how crops react to

temperatures, which civilization

would have an easier time spreadingout and populating the land?

A) The civilizations in Africa

B) The civilizations in the Middle East

and Europe

Below are some of the animals that are


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Below are some of the animals that are

native to both the African and Middle

Eastern/European regions

Why Didnt people in Africa domesticate animals like


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y p p

lions and giraffes as the people of the Middle East and

Europe domesticated the sheep and cow?

Watch the time line

Humans in Africa hunt the native animals.


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There are no humans in the Middle East and

Europe100,000 Years Ago

Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa


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while there are still no Humans in the Middle

East and Europe50,000 Years Ago

Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But because the

i l i Af i h b h d b h f l h


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animals in Africa have been hunted by humans for so long they

are now starting to develop a healthy fear of them. There are still

no humans in the Middle East and Europe

25,000 Years Ago

Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But because the animals in Africa have

been hunted by humans for so long they are now starting to develop a healthy fear


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been hunted by humans for so long they are now starting to develop a healthy fear

of them. Now the animals do not live as close nor do they come as close as they

once did. The animals know humans will hurt them. Human have just arrived in the

Middle East and Europe. The animals have no idea that they should be afraid of

humans.

10,000 Years Ago

Because humans hunted the African animals for so long, the animals developeda fear to stay as far away as possible and never developed the mentality to be


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a fear to stay as far away as possible and never developed the mentality to be

domesticated. Whereas the animals in the Middle East and Europe never had a

chance to develop a fear of man as the they were quickly domesticated instead of

being hunted for such a long period of time.

5,000 Years Ago

Why did Africans have a hard time


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Why did Africans have a hard timedomesticating their animals?

A) Africans never had a hard time domesticating

their animals

B) Africans had been hunting their native animalsfor so long that over time the animalsdeveloped a fear of man and an instinct to stayaway

C) The Europeans Attacked the Africans beforethey could domesticate

Correct!


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Correct!Keep Your

Distance Boys,

hes had that

spear for the

last 100,000

years!


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Hi,

my name is Amani Jones. I am looking to start a

civilization, but I am not sure where I should start it

or what I should do when I get there. Could you

please pick the factors that I need to have so that

my society will quickly develop into one that will

invent new technologies and give me the

capabilities to conquer other places in the world if I

chose to? Then will you please click on the button

that says reasons for choices and type in your

explanations? Make sure you print out yourreasons when you are done and turn them into that

wonderful World Studies teacher Mr. Abeel.

Thanks for your help,

Amani


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Do I want a civilization that is on a piece

of land which is oriented more towards

latitude or longitude?

Do I want a civilization that has spent

thousands of years hunting the animals before

I domesticate them or one that has never seen

the animals that I will domesticate?

Do I want a civilization that

develops agriculture and

domesticates animals or do I

want a civilization that is based

around hunters and gatherers?

Reason for

Choices
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Think about all that you have learned about civilization


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Think about all that you have learned about civilization

development. What one major factor do you think allowed

people in the Middle East and Europe to develop a civilization

that allowed them to conquer the continent and people ofAfrica, instead of the people of Africa conquering the people

of the Middle East and Europe?

A) Agricultural developmentB) Animal domestication

C) Geography

D) Hunting and Gathering

Correct!!!


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