_JC_Assignments1

=**__Assignment 1 __**= Using your notes **and** page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions **on your wiki page**. 1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year? - I was born on a CE year, since I was born in the year 1988. 2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215. - 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 476, CE 1215, AD 2000. 3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here. - c. AD 1000 means circa AD 1000, so it means 'around year 1000 in the year of our lord.'

=**__Assignment 2__**= Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class. Q1) What is the earliest event on the timeline? A1) The Burin stone tool. Q2) Which one comes later on the timeline? The sewing needle or the fishhook? A2) The fishhook. Q3) What happened in the same decade as the telephone? A3) The lightbulb. Q4) How many events are there in the second millennium CE? A4) Five events. Q5) In which millennium CE are we living in right now? A5) The third millennium CE.

=__Assignment 3__= 1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? -Callum was the director and I the stage manager, Michelle the script manager and Clara the props manager. 2. What problems did your group run into? -Sometimes we were not working well together and usually our finished products were very different from each others. 3. How did your group deal with these problems? -Our group dealt with it by making that the unique differences in everything. 4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. -All the stories, except for Egypt, the humans have been intentionally created and just one god creates all the humans, not all of them (except for Greece). 5. Compare and contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph). - I will now compare Egypt's origin story with Greece's. In Egypt, the humans are made on accident and by the king of the gods. In contrast, Greek humans are made on purpose by lesser gods. Also, Greece tells us how we got fire and why we don't have animal-like gifts. However, Egyptians don't show that, but they show how the first god was born, but in Greece, they were just there.
 * Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project** **Response**

=**__Assignment 4__**= Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions __**clearly** and in **complete sentences** on your wiki page__.

1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found? -They were all found in Africa. 2. What is the scientific name of Lucy? -Australopithecus 3. How long ago did Lucy live? -Over 3 million years ago. 4. What was an important step in human development? -The ability to walk on two legs. 5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer. Make sure your answer is **clear and detailed.**
 * Australopithecus-They walked upright on two legs, but their brains were one-thirds the size of a modern human and it is an 'southern ape.'
 * Homo habilis--The 'handy man'. Appeared in Africa about 2.4mil years ago. Used the stone tool. Brains are half the size of modern humans.
 * Homo erectusName means 'upright man'. Learned how to control fire. Used hand-axes and also moved out of Africa into Asia and Europe.
 * Homo sapiens'Wise man'. Appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Same species as human beings and also moved around the world. Learned to create fire, and used a wide variety of stone tools. They also developed language.

6. Which hominid are you? -I am a //homo sapien// or 'wise man.'

=__Assignment 5__= Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions __**clearly** and in **complete sentences** on your wiki page__. 1. Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study **prehistory**? - Historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory because there are no written record so they rely on remains (fossils, etc.) for the information. 2. What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright? - One of the advantages of walking completely upright is that they can move around on two limbs while doing something else with the other two. 3. What kind of **tools** did people use during the **Paleolithic Era**? - People used stones that have been smashed against another stone to create a sharp edge and the blunt one for a handle during the Paleolithic Era. 4. Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. - When I want to do my homework, I can get a flat stone, the smoothen one side so there is no dips or juts, then secure a piece of wood at the top so I can attach my paper to it to make a stone-and-wood clipboard. 5. What is a **hunter-gatherer**? - A hunter-gatherer is a person who hunts and gathers plants in order to survive. 6. In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? - I think the most important change is that they can now call objects by the same thing and also they can communicate a whole lot better, so their society will improve. 7. Define the boldfaced words above. __Prehistory__- Time before writing was invented. __Tools__- Any handheld object modified to help a human on a task. __Paleolithic Era__- Old Stone Age. __Hunter-gatherer__- A hunter-gatherer is a person who relies on hunting animals and gathering wild plants for food.

=__Assignment 6__= Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions __**clearly**__ and __**completely**__. Please put your answers on your wiki page.

1. Read the paragraph in the //Beginnings of Agriculture// section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?). -It would change my life a lot and make it more easier since I do not have to go search for the best fruits, I can have them growing 10 steps from my cave! So now I can have all of the sweetest fruits whenever I want! I even don't have to really go anywhere or search for new fruits every time they are gone!

Read //The First Farmers// and //Plants// section on p.41 and answer these questions: 2. What is another name for the New Stone Age? -Another name for the New Stone Age is the Neolithic Era. 3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for? -People made tools like saws and drills, and also made things out of metal. I think they used saws to cut wood and drills to grind and dig out stone. 4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now __**make**__ fire. Which hominid would this be? -This would be homo erectus-- the 'upright man.' 5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution? -I think this is called a revolution because everything changed. Now humans do not have to search for food, they now can just get it whenever and wherever they want. 6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'? -Domestication is the process of making plants or animals more useful to humans. 7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? -Cattle, sheep, and goat were domesticated in Asia. 8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? -Corn was domesticated in what is southern Mexico now. 9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different. -My life as a farmer would be different from a hunter and a gatherer because firstly, I do not have to go and search for food, I can settle down and just stany in one place and farm. Secondly, I do not have to worry about where my food is coming from so I can do a lot of other things in my free time. Lastly, I now focus on getting more comfortable and worry about my appearance more.

=__Assignment 7__= Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far. 1. If you were an austrailiopithicus, what would you do when you got hungry? 2. What would domesticating mean to you if you were an person that lived all the way through the Paleolithic through almost to the middle of the Neolithic? 3. Would homo sapiens exist if there was no domestication ever?

Answer these questions **clearly** and **completely** on your wiki page.

1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period? - The main difference is where their food came from. After the food began being a reliable source people began to do other stuff more and more. 2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period? -Their lives became much more comfortable and richer because now they do not worry about food and now they practice other skills besides and the outcome of those skills make their lives more comfortable, and on and on like a snow ball going down a snowy hill. 3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture? = = -If the reliable food source suddenly all died out, now they will not have anything to eat and they can't change to the hunter-gatherer so quickly. But they do not have to worry about hunting and gathering every day so they can actually just stay there and work on better tools, and stuff like that.

=__Assignment 8__= Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions __**clearly**__ and __**completely**__ on your wiki page. 1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? -One thing that surprised me was about the house of the dead. I did not expect for people in the stone age in Catal Hoyük to get into spiritual matters like those. Another thing that surprised me was on the surgery. The surgery was (as I think) advanced for those tools, and, even though it was very crude, I did not think surgery was possible. Also something that surprised me was the amulet of Gaia, a god (from my memory, it was of the earth, but I'm not sure) that said that the ownder was a descendant of the god Gaia. This appears in later cultures (Egypt, etc.) which is like raising yourself up and making you seem special. 2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Hoyük you knew already from class? -That they practiced agriculture is one of the things I knew already from class, and also that they had some sort of language is something we learned, too. Even that they knew how to light fires, we learned. 3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. __**Explain**__ three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.) -While we would be going to school, she would probably help her parents tend to the fields or to roam the wild and gather plants and berries and fruits to eat. While now we have easier ways to transfer information, (phones, internet, iChat, etc.) she would have to rely on others to deliver a message or to go visit that person in person. Her bed would be a cot like mat on the floor. However, many of us sleep in beds with springs and mattresses and have cotton or goose-feather pillows and blankets, and probably sleep a lot more than people in Catal Hoyük because they need to work and concentrate and bend their lifestyle the the work.
 * Catal Huyuk video 1
 * Catal Huyuk video 2

=__Assignment 9__= Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.

1. The single most important thing I learned was... -I think the single most important thing I learned was that humanity had potential and was evolving, slowly, adapting, then thriving, then ruling on the Earth.

2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was... -Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was how the australopithecus could evolve into beings like us because of the huge differences in intellect and they seemed to have a consciousness that was semi-aware of desires or wants and thoughts (extra thoughts, right or wrong, etc.) and sort of like more on instinct.

3. What surprised me the most was... -That the humans lived through the ice age and appeared way before. Modern human history and the events that we had kind of reminds me of microwave popcorn since the number of events start out slowly but sort of sprang up in the last 200~300 years.

4. I would like to know more about... -Did earlier versions of hominids build structures like the Pyramids or other structures that still lived to this day? I learned about //homo sapiens sapiens// what are those?

5. The part that I think I will always remember was... -Watching all those videos on the Stone Age. All of them were interesting and informative.