Early+Humans

= = =EARLY HUMANS= Click here -> [|Timeline of Human History.pdf] to see a copy of the timeline. Write your questions **and the answers** on your wiki page.

=__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? Type in the content of your page here.

//**Assignment 1 answers**//

1. I was born in CE year, CE1997(AD1997). I was born on common error, after cries. 2. The date comes in a order of BC3100, 15BCE, AD3, AD476, CE1215 and AD2000 3. In AD 1000, the building of castle castles started in Europe. It would mean that the period that includes knights is going to begin. So it started to develop and build lager houses and government that take control of it.

=__Assignment 2__=

Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.


 * //Assignment 2 answers//**

Q1. How many centuries are there between an invention of Burin and the last ice age? Q2. What year did Columbus find America? Q3. How many years did it passed from invention of telephone to invention of color TV? Q4. How many decades has it been from when Columbus found America to color TV invention? Q5. How many centuries did it pass from invention of paper in China to when money was invented?

=__Assignment 3__= Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See  Resources-1
 * Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project** **Response**

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).

//**Assignment 3 answers**// 1) The roles I took in the ‘Creation of a Puppet Show’ was Zeus and Prometheus. 2) Some problems that our group went into was lack of practice and time making puppets. We did not have enough time to practice in class and we did not have time to meet outside of school. 3) Since we did not have time because of our schedule, we decided to meet at before school and practice. 4) Two similarities among all origin stories are that it all consist gods and they all come to a conclusion of making humans. 5) The two different origin stories from class are the Egyptian origin story and Chinese origin story. To compare these two stories, it had not started with a purpose of making living things. These stories just came to a conclusion of making living things. For example, Egypt origin story did not have a purpose to make humans. They had a story of god of moisture and air lost in the ocean and Ra sent a eye to find them. After he cried tears of happiness and that had became the humans. The Chinese origen story talks about a god that traveled to find friend but made humans. To contrast, the difference between these two plays meant difference things. Egypt meant to people to live a happy life because he made humans by tears of happiness. The Chinese means that it doesn't matter if you are poor or rich. We are all the same human. Work hard and you can be like rich.

=**__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 are you?

//**Assignment 4 answers**// 1)Lucy and other hominids are found in the continent of Africa. 2)Lucy's tribe's scientific name is Australopithecus. 3)Lucy was living about 4.4 million years ago. 4) Steps that humans took in their development was Australopithecus to Homo habilis. It means handy man. Their brain got larger. Later on homo habilis evolved to homo erectus. It means upright man. They knew how to control fire. 200,000 years before homo erectus became homo sapiens which are modern people like you and me. 5)Australopithecus are called Southern apes. It was fond in Africa and it had fur all over her body. Homo habilis are called handy man. They knew how to use stone and they had larger brain. Homo erectus are upright man. They knew how to control fire and they use sharp stone to hunt. Homo sapiens are wise man. They know what they are doing. They are people lik you and me. 6)We mordern humans are wise man, the Homo sapiens.

=__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 wahttp://my.hrw.com/tabnav/controller.jsp?isbn=0030939674lking 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.//


 * Assignment 5 answers**

1) Historians need to study the tools and the body of the the early humans. They do not do this job. The archeologists and the anthropologists do this job of finding artifacts and bones. 2) One of the advantage that of being upright because they know what is going on and knows how to do certain things like fire. 3) They used stone tools on the paleolithic era. It lasted 10,000 years. 4) This is for teachers like you. This is a very flat and a keen stone that you would use for punishment. Actually this is more useful than the hair shaver. It would shave students' head bold. 5) A hunter-gatherer is the early people that hunted animals and gathered wild flowers to survive. 6) In my opinion, the theory that it developed from relationship is right. It is also important because with relationship we can communicate easily with relationship in any time. Like us, they were developed in a purpose of relationship. 7) Prehistory:Before the marking of humans activities like when the evolution of the humans started.

=__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.

//**Assignment 6 answers**// 1. Ok, I will read it, Mr. Hurst! /How could this discovery change your life? A: This discovery made them to grow crops and it means that they could have new lives not as food chasers but as food producers. 2.Another name for the ' New Stone age' is the Neolithic Era. The suffix ' Neo ' means new. 3. From the Neolithic Era, people started using tools which are made of metals. They used them for drills and saw. They might also used them for farming tools. 4.Homo Erectus first knew how to control fire. The Homo Sapiens knew how to create it and use it in many variety of tools. 5. It is called the 'revolution' because it cause the huge change of their lifestyle of getting food. They became the producer of their own food. 6. Domestication-to tame (an animal), esp. by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.(from dictionary references) 7. The animals that were domesticated in Asia are horses, cattle, sheep and goats. 8. The corns were first domesticated in North America. 9.The 3 ways that my life would be different with this discovery would be... First, we would not go out to gather anymore because you grow them.(we still eat food.) Second, We can control the amount of crops we get each year depending on the seed number. The animals and plants are there for certain conditions only. Third, We get a decent amount of crops every year. Not that we can control it, but that we get it every year.

=__In Class Activity__= Homework -Complete your Changes in Life during the Neolithic Period chart. Be prepared to present any of the Aspects of Life Effects to the class with your partner. =Stone Age Aspects of Life Reading=

=-Mr. Hurst!!! I did the chart!=

=__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?

//**Assignment 7 answers**//

three test Questions- 1)What is the difference in the occupations during the neolithic era from the paleolithic era? 2)What kind of tools did the paleolithic people use? 3)What are we now, present? choose one of following.

A) Homo erectus B) Homo sapien C) Southern apes D) Homo habilas

ANSWERS 1)The main difference is that in the neolithic period people could control and expect the amount of food through agriculture. It means they no longer spend time searching for food, therefore not like the paleolithic people, they could stay in one stabled place to grow crops and raise animal. It made them possible to develop their culture and art.

2)By domesticating animals, people use their label to agriculture.Also, they could get useful things from animals, like animal wool and meat.There was no need to go out for hunting and gathering in the wild anymore becasue they could produce it.

3)There are several advantages of agricultural life.They do not need to go out gathering and also they could spend more time on doing other things. And with their product surplus food of the year, they can trade with other clans of people. They can exchange with thing that they need. The disadvantages of the agricultural life is that is you settle in an area and farm many times, the land would be dry and not very eligible for farming anymore. When some natural disaster occur, it can destroy everything. For example, flood, every plants would be dead. So, they do not have much food left.

=**The test preparation notes**=

//the early people and their generation//

These apes appeared about 4-5 million years ago. Used stone tools and stood with 2 legs. Their brain was about 1/3 size modern human brains. Yet it did not know how to use fire. They gathered vegetables, fruit and hunted animals to survive. They lived in groups. There were many groups and they fought over the territory. Lucy for example, a Australopithecus that once existed had a great conflict with the wild and other group of southern apes. They gave birth to babies. The Australopithecus also had fur. They developed fur because they had to survive in the coldness when it is cold.they were closer to apes that time.
 * Australopithecus**- //Southern apes//

This kind of human was generated about 2.4 million years ago. They were called 'handy man' because they were wiser than a ape and knew new things. But also they were not as developed as modern humans. Their brain is about half the size of modern humans. They knew how to use stone tools properly. They used stone for scrapping, chopping and hunting usually. Yet they did not know how to use fire. They had fur, but not as much as the Australopithecus. They have less because they started building shelters that are warmer, so they were not many use of fur as Australopithecus because they did not have a warm shelter.
 * Homo Habilis-** //handy man//

This kind of humans could stand up straight and were very clever too. They used the stone tools perfectly fine. They started making them sharp to make it more better to hunt. They made things like hand ax. They also learned how to control fire. They how to use fire. They used it when it is cold and to cook foods. This kind of people appeared in Africa about 1.5-2 million years ago. They were smarter and clever than the Homo habilis because their brains were bigger than them. It is about the same, but smaller then the modern people. They moved out of Africa nas moved into other continents like Asia and Europe.
 * Homo erectus-** //upright man//

These people are people like you and me, now. They completely know the use of fire and can do other things. They did things like making languages. They developed it so that we can communicate with each other and express our feeling. Now we use different tools. Instead of stone, we use things like metal which are better tools than stones. Homo sapiens existed 200,000 years ago. we migrated around the world and spread ourselves out to the territory. Also we do not have any furs but a hair because we stay cozy in our homes.
 * Homo Sapien-**//wise man//

//Changes in life//

Sheep are wild and they use to have horns for protection. Now most of them don't because people stay in one place and capture animals on one place. Instead they have wools which gives benefit to humans. Humans did not hunt much anymore. They produced animals and do not need to hunt. Also agriculture, people started to produce food and not go gathering much.
 * Food Supply-** //Something that humans eat//

When they were gather-hunter, they did not have much free time to do something else. Later when they started agriculture and capturing animals, they did not need to go out hunting and gathering. So, they had time to develop arts and tools. They started making potteries and other things for decoration and uses.
 * Occupations-** //Somethings that humans do in activity//

Because humans now did agriculture and captured animals, they did not need to follow them and move around. They settled in more groups with more people. They can make your houses more safe. They also decorated their houses with many things that are useful**.
 * Population/settlement-** //When humans settled in groups//

Resources-** //Something that people made to make for decoration// Humans made things for their own decorations. In the paleolithic era, necklaces were made with animal claws and teeth. Later on in the neolithic era the necklaces were more varied and obviously it was better. This things can decorate yourself. Or in the older days, it might be an object that was believed to keep evil spirits away.

Long ago in the paleolithic era people just simple built a tent and called it a shelter. They did not have time to so it better because there were so much things to do to survive. When in the neolithic period when people discovered the agriculture, they had time to decorate your house. They made it stronger because they were going to live in it permanently. They put thing they needed in their shelter.
 * Shelter-** //Somewhere humans lived//

The tools that humans used in this period is stone. They made it sharper and hunted with it. First, they had rocks that was not that sharp to give much damage to the animals. Later on they got the way to sharpen it more sharper to give more influence.
 * Technology-** //Tools that humans used//

//Vocabulary//


 * Paleolithic Era**- Old stone age. There were not many thing that was developed in this era. People were still hunter-gathers. They used stone tools in this period.


 * Neolithic Era-** New stone age. There were many changes in life and they started to agriculture and capture animals in that place.


 * Food Supply-** The things that humans ate. Like animals and plants.


 * Occupation-** The things that humans made. Like pottery. They were able to develop this in their leisure time when they had time because they discovered the agriculture and capturing animals.


 * Population/Settlement-** When people lived in groups. There were group of people and formed a community.


 * Resources-** Thing that people made to decorate themselves or other reasons that it protects them from evil spirits.


 * Shelter-** The place that humans lived. They developed their houses in the Neolithic era**.

Technology**- Tools that humans use for certain things. Like stone tools that they used for hunting.


 * Agriculture-** Thing that humans did in the neolithic era. When they planted seeds and got plants every y**ear.

Domestication-** When humans captured animals on a land to eat them whenever they want to. Animals change because of this. For example, sheep. Their horns were gone because they are no longer in the wild.

=__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

1)Some things that surprised me about the daily life Catal huyuk were that they had places like house of dead where they keep the sculls of the ancestor instead of the whole body. This surprised me because nowadays we do not do this. People think cutting someone's even it is a corpse's head is an disgusting thing. An another thing I thought that was very surprising to me was curing people. When the women in the video got bitten by a snake, Uookie knew how to cure her. It was a quite interesting thing that they could cure someone perfectly with other things when medication was not developed. Lastly, I also thought the surgery was amazing. Using a stone to cut a someone head open is a very dangerous thing to do. However simply with a stone they did the surgery successfully. This was amazing because medication wasn't very developed this time. Maybe, medication was very developed in those days too.
 * //Assignment 8 answers//**

2)Some things I already knew about the video are that the people lived in groups. Their population grew larger and larger. Second thing is that the people in Catal huyuk are Hunter gathers. Uooki discovers the discovery of agriculture later on. This the reason why the population started to grow wider and wider. THis also caused the settlement of people.Third thing I knew was that the people discover the agriculture. A man named Uookie did not discover it and he did not discovered by touching the soil he peed on and thinking that 'this soil is good~'.

3)If a girl named Jookie lived in catal huyuk, some differences that I and her have is that her community. The size of her community is different in size. Community that I live in is more bigger that catal huyuk. Also the tools the men of the community use are stone tools usually. However now we use guns and knives. Comparing knife and stone, knifes are way sharper than a stone. Third, trading things. in her community, they trade things material to material. However, nowadays we use money most of the times.(sometimes we trade by material to material)We buy material from them.

=__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...

2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...

3. What surprised me the most was ...

4. I would like to know more about...

5. The part that I think I will always remember was...


 * //__Assignment 9 answers__//**

1) The single most important thing that I had learned was when humans learned how to domesticate and farm. I was very amazed by how their life changed in that time. 2)something that confused me or that I didn't understand was the occupations in the chart. I did not understand what they were doing. 3)What surprised me the most was when they people in catal huyuk just started to cut a person head open. I was also amazed that they can do this things in the past when the medical was not developed much. 4)I would like to know more about the humans generations. I want to know about what thy did. Homo habilas, not just the basic information, information like what their houses were like. 5)The part that I think I will always remember was when we did a project on human creation.

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