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Prehistory
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What is Prehistory?
Period of time before people invented writing
All things older than 5,000 years ago
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Studying History
Historians – study and write about the historical past.
Artifacts Primary Sources Secondary Sources Identify Bias
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Primary & Secondary Documents and Artifacts Primary documents original works in various media formats.
photographs, drawings, letters, diaries, documents, books, films, posters, play scripts, speeches, songs, sheet music, and first-person accounts that are recorded at the time of an event.
Secondary Documents source created by someone either not present when the event took place or removed by time from the event. Relates to or discusses information originally presented elsewhere
Examples of secondary sources include textbooks, journal articles, histories, and encyclopedias.
Artifacts Objects made by humans Clothing, coins, artwork, and toombstones
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Primary Source vs. Secondary Source
Primary Secondary
Original artwork Critique of the artwork
Slave diary Book about underground railroad
Poem Book critique of the poem
Video tape of a performance
Biography about a person
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Primary or Secondary
World History text book? Recorded speech of President Kennedy? Web site about the assassination of
Kennedy? Pictures of hieroglyphics? Book about translating hieroglyphics? Diary of WWI soldier? Book about WWI?
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Using Artifacts
“Mindwalk Activity”List as many activities as you can remember
participating in during the past 24 hours. For each activity on your list write down what
evidence might have been left behind. What would a future historian be able to
tell about your life and your society based on your daily activities preserved for the future?
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Who Else Studies History?
Anthropologist: Ancient cultures and civilizationsArchaeologist: Study past people based on
their material remains.Paleontologist: Specialize in the study of
fossils
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Who Else Studies History?YOU DO!!!
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Division of Time
1. Explain what these abbreviations mean: B.C. A.D. B.C.E. C.E.
2. Use the following four dates to create a timeline:
1776 A.D. 1492 A.D. 800 B.C. 509 B.C.
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Division of Time
1. Explain what these abbreviations mean: B.C. Before Christ A.D. Anno Domini B.C.E. Before Common Era C.E. Common Era
2. Use the following four dates to create a timeline:
509 B.C. 800 B.C. 1492 A.D. 1776 A.D.
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Time Line
B.C. and B.C.E.A.D. and C.E.
1000 B.C. 500 B.C. 500 A.D. 1000 A.D.
Write Down the Year your born in the middle of a timeline. Write three events that happened before you were born to the left, but do not put the date but how many years it was before you were born. Put three dates to the right of your birth date and put down the year it occurred after you were born.
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B.C. or A.D.? That is the Question
3000 B.C.E.
Egypt Unites
2000 B.C.E. Development of Chinese Writing
44 B.C.E.
Julius Caesar is killed
1215 C.E.
English Magna Carta signed
1776 C..E.
U.S. Declaration of Independence
27 B.C.E.
Octavian becomes ruler of Rome
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Timeline Creation 1100 C.E. 800 B.C.E. 1930 A.D. 1803 A.D.
1492 C.E. 776 B.C. 476 C.E. 2500 B.C.E.
2500 2000 1500 1000 500 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
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Turning Point
The Neolithic Revolution
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Beginnings of Civilization
ELO: I can explain how the world’s first civilization began and developed?
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Neolithic Era leads to first civilizations Civilization – Highly complex organized
social orderWhere?
Rivers: water supply, fertility of land, and animals are drawn in
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Neolithic Era leads to first civilizations Civilization – Highly complex organized
social orderWhere?
Rivers: water supply, fertility of land, and animals are drawn in
Surpluses were establishedModern economies and cities were created.
Traditional, Mixed, Market, and Command Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Barter
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Match the River with the appropriate civilization
a. Egypt
b. India
c. Shang
d. Sumer
1. Yellow
2. Tigris and Euphrates
3. Nile
4. Indus
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Why and how civilizations develop
Neolithic people learn to farm Hunters and gatherers settle into communities
Some farmers settle in river valleys, soil is very fertile
Food surpluses created producing larger population
First cities are built Complex forms of government created
Arts more elaborate
Job specialization and social classes
Writing invented Early civilizations conquer neighboring lands