November 21 2015 1 Get a Cornell note

November 21, 2015 1) Get a Cornell note sheet from the back table, please. 2) Warm up question: What is the title of chapter three? Write it on your sheet under “topic. ”

Goal: Copy as warm-up Our goal is to understand what was needed to create early human settlements. How did we stop wandering the land, looking for food and shelter, and instead settle down and create farms and communities?

Vocabulary: Paleolithic: The Old Stone Age, when people hunted and gathered their food, moving from place to place. Shelter was often found in caves. Neolithic: The New Stone Age, when people learned to farm (agriculture) and settled down in one place. Neo means “new. ”

Vocabulary (add to notes) Agriculture: The business of farming: raising animals and growing crops. Domesticate: To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.

3. 3 Creating a Stable Food Supply What are two important facts about the food supply in the Neolitic Age? 1 2 Why are these facts important?

November 28, 2017 In your spiral please! 1) Describe agriculture and Explain how it helped early people change their paleolithic way of living. 2) What is the “new stone age” called?

3. 4 Making Permanent Shelters Detail 1: How do they do it? Detail 2: What did they look like? Why was permanent shelter important? How did it help early people?

3. 5 Establishing Communities Detail 1: Communities allowed people to do what? Detail 2: Communities helped them learn what? Why is this important? What could people do now?

3. 6 Developing New Jobs What could people do with only one job? What else did Neolithic people do now? What does the book conclude about the importance of these things?

3. 7 Beginning to Trade Why did people trade? How did people trade? What were they looking for? What was the result of trading?

Nov. 29, 2017 (Do recipe summary and turn in please!) 1) Name the five characteristics of early settlements. 2) Explain in a sentence or two why ONE of these was important.

Dec. 3, 2015 1) Explain how permanent shelters or communities were important to Neolithic settlements. (This should be at least three sentences long. )

Nov. 30, 2017 1) In what ways did the development of farming change people’s lives? Use at least two details to summarize and explain the result of these changes. (three to four sentences)

Dec. 1, 2017 1) Today, the area that was once ancient Mesopotamia is the country of ______. 2) Name the earliest ancient civilization mentioned in the video “Return to Eden. ”

Review Paragraph “Settlements in the Neolithic Age” Write a paragraph that describes two details of Neolithic Settlements. Explain why these details were important to the people of this time period.

Unit Goal #2 Write in your spiral please: Identify problems of the Mesopotamians and how they solved them. “These solutions led to the building of some of the first cities in the world” (H. A. 34).

December 5, 2017 As we read, list the new ideas developed by the ancient societies of Mesopotamia. 1. 2. 3. 4 5.

December 5, 2017 1) Summarize the first problem of the Mesopotamians and how this led people to “the land between the rivers. ”

Problem #1 People farming in the foothills did not have enough land to farm food for their large population. There was a shortage of food. Solution: They moved to the plains near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Here, there was land to farm and plenty of water. DON’T FORGET THE DRAWING!

December , 2017 1) Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia. 2) These rivers empty in the _______ Gulf. 3) Name two modern-day countries (besides Iraq) in the area of Mesopotamia.

Def: Civilization A centralized society with developed forms of religion and ways of governing, and learning. To have a civilization and not just a farming community, organized religion and government are key!

Def: Technology The skill and knowledge to make products or meet goals is called technology. This means that the ability to make things that make life easier is called technology. (ex: tools, equipment, building methods, eventually computers etc. )

1. Irrigation

2. Wheel

3. Wheeled Cart

4. Sailboat

5. Ziggurat

Def: City State A city-state included a city and the farmlands around it. Each city-state had its own leaders and its own government. Eventually the government was a monarchy (ruled by a king).

December , 2017 In two sentences, describe one major innovation of the Sumerians and how it helped advance society. Please get your workbook if I have not checked off your Ch. 4 notes.

1. The Sumerian Lyre The lyre (harp) represents the arts because it shows what kind of musical instrument the Sumerians played and why.

Review The things needed to establish a settlement are… Hunting and gathering time period is called… Ancient Mesopotamia is which modern-day country? First Civilization in Mesopotamia. Name some other modern-day middle eastern countries. The Rivers in Mesopotamia The meaning of the word “Mesopotamia… Sumerian writing is called what?

More Review Canals and Levees are part of what inovation? Benefits of Farming…. Mesopotamian Gulf… Some Sumerian inventions… Describe a city-state. What is agriculture? What is a scribe’s job? What is technology? Seven characteristics of a civilization…