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=**__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? 2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215 3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean?


 * Answers:**
 * 1) I was born in a CE year.
 * 2) The order of these dates are: 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 4776, CE 1215, AD 2000.
 * 3) If I read an event that said c. AD 1000, it would mean that I read an event at around or about 1000 AD.

=**__Assignment 2__**= Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.

Click here -> [|Timeline of Human History.pdf]to see a copy of the timeline. Write your questions **and the answers** on your wiki page.
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 * Questions** :
 * 1) How many millenniums have past since the event of Farming of corn in Peru? (according to the year 2000 CE)
 * 2) Which date comes first, 500 CE or 1000 CE?
 * 3) How many centuries have past since the castles were built in Europe? (according to the year 2000 CE)
 * 4) How many years of difference is there from Paper made in China and Paper Money made from China?
 * 5) At what time of generation do you think the Burin was invented?


 * Answers:**
 * 1) 4 millenniums have past since the Farming of Peru.
 * 2) The date that comes first is: 500 CE.
 * 3) 200 centuries have past since the castles were built in Europe.
 * 4) There are 895 years, in difference.
 * 5) I think the Burin was invented in the Stone Age.

=**__Assignment 3__**= Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1 Answer the following questions on your wiki page. 1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? 2. What Problems did your group run into? 3. How did your group deal with these problems? 4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. 5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
 * Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project** **Response**


 * Answers:**
 * 1) I had the role of the narrator. I was the director.
 * 2) A problem we had run into was that when we said the script, we were too busy looking at it that we didn't put the puppets up at the right time.
 * 3) How we had worked it out is that we just kind of gave each other signs to remember or saying to get ready. We also had made up when to put the puppets up. For example when I said "Among them, there was the god of wisdom," Kylie put up the god.
 * 4) A similarity between all of the origin stories is that, one, they all explained how the humans were made, and two, they all had gods in them that were telling the main character something, like an order.
 * 5) I have chosen the origin story from China and the origin story from Greece.

First, the similarities are that in the beginning, the story both say that it was a beautiful place and that the god or goddess had to do something or had a problem. Later both characters leave their shelter and head out to do what satisfies them. They both had problems but they figured it out by creating humans. The both stories explain how there are rich people and poor or lucky and unlucky people but the Greece story says that the animals are more lucky than the humans. The stories both say they added a gift to the humans. Like how the Greece story says that they give the gift of fire and the Egypt story says that the goddess gave the gift to make ourselves by learning how to marry. The both stories had gifts to give to the humans.

The difference between these two stories are that the Greece story tells that they made a mistake with giving all the gifts to the animals but in the Egypt story, they say that the goddess only makes humans. In the Greece story they didn't say anything about having a problem with making them. In the Egypt story, they say the goddess became tired of making the humans. The Egypt story explains how the humans learned to make themselves but it doesn't say anything about making the humans make themselves in the Greece story. The Greece story doesn't really explain about how they made everything specifically but the Egypt story says that the goddess had made feet because she didn't think it was necessary to give them tails.

=__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? 2. What is the scientific name of Lucy? 3. How long ago did Lucy live? 4. What was an important step in human development? 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
 * Homo habilis
 * Homo erectus
 * Homo sapiens

6. Which hominid is us now?

1. The continent Lucy was found on was in Africa. 2. The scientific name of Lucy is //Homo erectus.// 3. Lucy lived more than 3 million years ago. 4. An important step in human development was walking on two legs. 5. The difference between these hominids are the size of their brains. They all had different sizes. They all have different names with them. They all used different tools as closer it came to our time. Later on, there is a difference that the people started to migrate from just staying in the country and later on, migrating around the world. To say all of this easily, the are all very different with their own unique fact. **
 * Answers:


 * Australopithecus: the name means "southern ape". Appeared in Africa at about 4-5 million years ago. This creature stood upright and walked on two legs. The brain size is about one third of out brains today.
 * Homo habilis: the name means "handy man". Appeared in Africa about 2.4 million years ago. They used stone tools for chopping and scraping. Their brains are half the size of our brains today.
 * Homo erectus: the name means "upright man". Appeared in Africa about 2-1.5 million years ago. Used early stone tools like a hand ax. They migrated out of Africa to Europe.
 * Homo sapiens: the name means "wise man". Appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago. They migrated around the world. They are the same species as the human beings. They learned to create fire and use a variety of tools. Later, the developed language.

6. The hominid that is us now are the //Homo sapiens// or called the "wise ones".

=__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**?
 * 2) What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright?
 * 3) What kind of **tools** did people use 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.
 * 5) What is a **hunter-gatherer**?
 * 6) In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language?
 * 7) Define the boldfaced words above.

a. **prehistory**: the time before people could write b. **tools**: any handheld object that is modified to help a person accomplish their task c. **Paleolithic Era**: the stone age that lasted until about 10,000 years ago d. **hunt-gatherer**: people who hunt animals, gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts
 * Answers:**
 * 1) Historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory because they rely on the facts of knowing the prehistory. Since archaeologists studied the important facts of prehistory and anthropologists study mankind, when they work together, historians should need them to help study about the prehistory. Prehistory means the time before there was writing.
 * 2) An advantage of walking completely upright would be to hold something in your hands while you are walking or running. For example, if you saw a mammoth, you would run, holding your spear in your hands. If we walked like other mammoths, which is walking on four legs, we would have a problem carrying it.
 * 3) The kind of tools people used during the Paleolithic Era would be stone tools.
 * 4) A tool I would use made out of stone would be a stone with a sharp edge and a flat, bold edge. The sharp edge to cut and the flat edge to mush things like food. I would attach a string to the tool and put it around my neck to carry it everywhere. I would make a tool, that is made from wood, a spear with a cloth over it when not in use and a side with a straight, long piece of wood for grilling food. Or picking things up.
 * 5) Hunter-gatherers are people that hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts.
 * 6) In my opinion, the most change by the development of language would be from long time ago, when they used paintings or drawings as language until today. Where we have all types of languages, from all around the world.
 * 7) The boldfaced words defined are beneath the text I am writing now.

=__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?).

Read //The First Farmers// and //Plants// section on p.41 and answer these questions: 2. What is another name for the New Stone Age? 3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for? 4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now __**make**__ fire. Which hominid would this be? 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? 6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'? 7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? 8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? 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.


 * Answers:**
 * 1) This discovery could change my life by first, knowing that there could be more varieties of fruits and that I could try to make more combinations to see what is good to eat. I would be able to find out what kind of fruits would be good to eat on which season. I could also find out what seeds grow in the summer or the winter. If I can't grow the seeds in the winter, then I would learn to save the fruits before the cold comes.
 * 2) Another name for the New Stone Age is called Neolithic.
 * 3) The kind of tools people made during that time are saws and drills. First, the saw was probably made for cutting objects. The drills were probably made for poking a hole in an object that is pretty thick.
 * 4) The people that learned to make fire are the homo erectus hominids.
 * 5) I think the historians called it the Neolithic Revolution because revolution means to force to change, I think the historians would have thought about the hunters and to imagine what their way of saying change is. I think it should be called that and shouldn't because it was a change but not a force. I still think "revolution" is a good way of expressing it.
 * 6) The definition of the word "domesticated" is the process of making the animals or plants more useful to humans. Or to tame.
 * 7) The animals that were domesticated in Asia are the sheep, cattle, and goat.
 * 8) Corn was first domesticated around Mexico.
 * 9) If I was a farmer my life would be different from a hunter and gatherer by me, not having to move to other places to find the food. Second, to not be worried about the amount of food. If there is too much food, that is a problem, and too little, is also a problem. Also, I could trade my crops for something else useful, if I have enough.

=__Assignment 7__= Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.

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? 2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period? 3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?

Question number 1: How was agriculture made? What is the whole purpose of the developments? Answer: The whole purpose of the developments is by trying things out. See what they do when they mix. Like experimenting. Question number 2: What is the meaning of agriculture? Answer: Agriculture means when the people farm. Question number 3: About how many years ago was the Neolithic period? Answer: The Neolithic period was about 9,000 years ago.(or 9 thousand years) Advantages: The advantages in daily life is that there are great technology, for example, from a pencil to a mechanical pencil, a from a computer to a notebook(wireless computer). We people have become in use of objects that are very comfortable to use with. The people have been very happy to have these objects. There are food that we buy in the stores than hunting them. We now days have cars to transport, instead of walking or riding an animal. We have a lot of objects, like shelter and settlement that is different. For example, when we have to have a meeting, we don't //have// to move. We could call the person or meet in apartments. Shelter, is much more better than the Paleolithic times, where you would make a small, round-shaped tent. As time goes by, the people are seeing the development of agriculture and development.
 * Answers:**
 * 1) The main difference in life between the life in the Paleolithic period and the life in the Neolithic period is that the people there won't have to hunt any more. They would have more technology in tools, such as a sharp stone, only, to a sharp stone with wood to help us carry it. Also the people became domesticated.
 * 2) People's lives changed as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period by leading them into the development in agriculture. People had started to learn to make their own food by farming.
 * 3) Some of the advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development in agriculture, are:

Disadvantages: The disadvantages are that the people have become much more lazy. Since the technology has become better, people are now using machines, like driving a car when it is a length you can walk, when we can go and talk to them but use a phone instead. We have also become farther away from our culture and tradition. As time goes by, the traditions of our culture slowly fade away. For example, how we make tofu, there are shops that sell tofu with the same machines and recipe since long time ago, but now, those kinds of markets shut down. Sooner or later, it will be hard to find places of showing the past.

=** __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? 2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? 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.)
 * Catal Huyuk video 1
 * Catal Huyuk video 2

These are the ways that my life would be different from the 12 year old, Jookie that lives in Catal Hoyuk.
 * Answers:**
 * 1) The three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised me is that the hunters and gatherers painted their ancestors with paint to resemble who the had been, that agriculture was made just by experimenting and by accident. Also the last is that the people there knew all kinds of ways to cure even though there were no medicines then. Painting their ancestors were surprising because I didn't know they would spend so much time just for the dead and how they even made a house for the dead called "//The House of the Dead//". It is surprising to see that agriculture had started by accident because I thought it would be hard to grow plants and they would do things pretty scientifically. Also it is interesting and surprising to know how there were cures before medicine because I had heard that it was hard to cure a disease but easy to get. The people there had used plants and other things and I think that using those would help but not a lot since it those aren't very strong.
 * 2) The three things that I already knew from class was the domestication of animals and the cultivation of plants. How the people started tame animals and other things in the Neolithic Period. Another would be knowing a bit of the basics of the four different hominids. Finally, the last one would be knowing how the people trade among the clan or group.
 * 3) The first thing would be about how I wake up, on an average day and I stay at home, playing around or studying, but Jookie's day would be different. She would get up, early in the morning, with her mother and start gathering and making things for the whole day. The second thing would be about what we eat. I would have a toast or rice for breakfast, a Western food for lunch, like spaghetti and for dinner, I would have a formal Korean food. Jookie would have may skipped a few meals, a bit of this, a bit of that, but if she was eating the 3 meals a day, she would eat differently from me. I guess she would eat the leftovers from yesterday or a simple bit of rice or wheat. For lunch, she would have a lamb dish with a side of edible berries and for dinner, she would have more various types of meat, edible plants, and broth.(Just assuming) Last but not least, the third thing would be the way we dress. First, I would wake up with my comfortable, warm pajamas on and after breakfast, after I washed, I change into my proper clothing, depending on the temperature. Then, when night comes again, I change into my pajamas. Jookie would wake up, wearing the skin of an animal that is warm but maybe not as comfortable. When she goes out to do work, she would change into another skin of an animal but more warmer, like a dress, and boots made from the fur of an animal. Maybe even a small layer of fur coat, too.

=__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... the Neolithic Revolution. 2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was... the Aspects of Daily Life. I didn't understand the three major events we had to write about.

3. What surprised me the most was... that agriculture had started by accident.

4. I would like to know more about... the life in the Neolithic Period.

5. The part that I think I will always remember was... how our ancestors came from Africa and how agriculture was made by a simple accident.

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