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1. How many decades before was the color TV invented?(rounded) Answer: about 6 2.What does c. mean? Answer: about....  3.Which goes first? 5 B.C.E, 100 BCE, and 1 CE? Answer:1 CE 4. Which event occurred in the 50’s?  Answer: Color Television was invented 5.What does BCE stand for?  Answer: Before Common Era

Assignment 3 Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project Response 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? My role in the puppet show was the stage and props manager.  2. What Problems did your group run into?  The problems that my group ran into was that all three of us had different ideas and thoughts so there were times that we fought.  3. How did your group deal with these problems?  We usually tried to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of what we thought about.  4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.  One similarity is that all the stories had Gods and the other is that in the story, the Gods or goddess creates or helps people.  5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).  I the Chinese story, humans are made by clay. In the Egyptian story, people are made out of tears. Although they both somehow create human beings, the Egyptians didn't do it on purpose and the Chinese make people on purpose. The Chinese Goddess created these humans only but Ra created other Gods and Goddesses as well as humans. A similarity is that both God and Goddess are lonely so they start creating people. 

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? Lucy and the other hominids were found in Africa 2. What is the scientific name of Lucy? The scientific name of Lucy is Homo Habilis.  3. How long ago did Lucy live?  Lucy lived more than three million years ago. 4. What was an important step in human development?  An important step in human development is Homo erectus. They began to use fire and cook food on them.  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.  The Homo HabilisAustralopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens All these hominids lived in a different generation. They all had different sizes of their bodies and brains. They change how they do things and what things they use for life. Homo sapiens are the only hominids alive. 6. Which hominid are you? I am a Homo sapien also known as "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 ?  We need archaeologists and anthropologist because historians can only find out things from artifacts. Archaeologists and anthropologists work to find artifacts from a long time ago so that historians can find out things from it.  2. What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright?  One advantage of walking with two legs is that you can have extra hands to do things rather than carry it in your mouth.  3. What kind of toolsdid people use during the Paleolithic Era ?  In the Paleolithic Era, people used stone tools. Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. A tool I could use to help me do my chores is a not too sharp but not too blunt stick. With that, I could poke people when they annoy me. I would make it long so that I could poke them from far away distances. funny

4. What is a hunter-gatherer ?  A hunter gatherers were people that hunted and gathered food at the same time to survive the wilderness. 

5. In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? I think that the most important change brought by the development of language is that we can record things and communicate much more effectively than drawings so we can teach things from generation to generation. 

6. Define the boldfaced words above.  Prehistory: The time before written records Tools: A device held in hand Paleolithic Era : A period that lasted for 2.5 million years when there were hunter gatherers.  Hunter Gatherers: People who collected food and hunted food in order to survive. 

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 theBeginnings 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?  Another word for 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?  The tools people made were saws and drills. I think they used these tools for cutting and tearing things. 4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?  The hominids that could make fire and to control fire were the homo sapiens. 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 that it is called a revolution becuase moving around to gather an hunt food to growing food was a lot of different and it was a giant step forward. 6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?  The definition for the word domestication 1. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.  2. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.  3. a. To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans. b. To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.  4. To bring down to the level of the ordinary person. 7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? Horses, sheep, cattle and goats were animals domesticated in Asia . 8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? Corn was first domesticated in North America 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.  Three ways my life would be different is that I wouldn't move as much, I won't have to starve and I wouldn't hunt as much. you

Assignment 7 Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.  What were the main advantages of farming?  The main advantages of farming were that firs, now we could settle down in one place and have a more stable life. What are thr biggest difference between the Neolithic and the Paleolithic period?  The biggest difference is that we are not hunter- gatherers anymore.  Why is our food supply larger these days?  Our food supply is higher than before because we learned how to domesticate animals and plants for our uses. 

Answer these questions clearlyand completely on your wiki page.  1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?  Nowadays, we are not hunter gatherers. We can get things easily in a market. Our population is much bigger since we live in one place. Our shelters make our life stabler than those of the ones in the paleolithic period. 2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period? We got more food, useful objects as wool and animals that helped us like dogs (wolves). 3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture? One advantage of changes in daily life as a result of agriculture is that we don't move around as much to hunt and gather. We develop everything else as we stay in one place. Another advantage is that we can build permanent homes that are more comfortable since we do not change our location of living. A disadvantage was that know that when we lived in different places, the population was just about 20 to sixty people per territory but it expanded so much. Study Guide Hominids and their Characteristics Australopithecus: The first of our kind Homo Habilis: Also called handy- man because the of the tools they made Homo Erectus: Name means upright man Homo Sapiens: Learned to control fire Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Modern human Aspects of Daily life effects notes Food - Now bigger food source -Domesticated animals -Better wheat, and other crops - No hunter- gatherers Recources - More trading - Look for things not there Occupations - More time to grow skills Vocabulary: Agriculture: farmingHunter gatherers: People who people who gather plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts for food but hunted at the same time Paleolithic Era: is the Stone Age but the first part if it Neolithic Era: The new stone age Hominid: an early ancestor of humans Tools: Things to help people do work Assignment 8Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page. Catal Huyuk video 1 Catal Huyuk video 2 1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? The thing I was most surprised about in the video was that they knew how to capture wild animals alive. It surprised me because I never thought that you could catch an animal without any weapon or anesthetic for the animals that we use these days. 2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? Three things that I know about Catal Huyuk is that people developed agriculture, and domestication in Catal Huyuk, there were surgeries and that there used to be some kind of religion. 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.) One way I would be different is that I could go to school and I have to do homework when i finish school but Jookie must have done other kinds of work suck as delivering crops or harvesting. The other is that Jookie lives with somehow a less stable life. I can access food fro farmers but Jookie might be the farmer. The third is that Jookie and I have different religions because they had just barely made their religions and there was only one in that village. 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 most important thing that I learnt was that all the homo habilis were hunter gatherers 2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was... What is the difference between a homos sapien and a homo sapien sapien? 3. What surprised me the most was... What surprised me most was that you could fit 3 brains of an Australopithecus in out head 4. I would like to know more about... I would like to know in detail about Australopithecus 5. The part that I think I will always remember was... The part that i will always remember is the fact that there were fascinatingly "us- like" villages