From Prehistory To Civilization, 3000-1200 B.C. 

Learning Objectives: Trace the key developments of prehistory, from the emergence of our human ancestors to the beginnings of village life 

• "language, religion , art, technology, farming, family life, and village communities-all these basic features of Human existence originated in prehistoric times"
• Prehistory- the millions of years on which human beings appeared on the earth, spread across the planet, and advanced in organization and skills

LO1. Before Civilization: The Prehistoric Era

• civilization is a very recent development

• but humans did not yet produce written language 

• There appeared complex social and economic structures in Southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa

• in 1200 BC an international region of civilization came into existence

•   Excavations of fossils indicate that the earliest human like species probably appeared in East Africa. 

• Over hundreds of thousands of years, new species evolved that gradually took on the various physical features and mental capacities that are unique to the human race.

•  Humans began to walk on two legs, thereby releasing their hands to make and use tools and weapons. 

•  Human’s body hair began to thin out and their digestions weakened, so that they needed clothing, cooking, and fire

•  Neolithic Age: the period of human history characterized by advances in stone tool making and the beginnings of agriculture.

•   Followed by the Bronze age 3000-1000 b.c.

•  Some People migrated, hunted, fished, gathered plant, sheltered in caves, lived in temporary huts and made tools

• The woman would take care of the children

• The villages grew up to 300 people

• They domesticated animals
•  The Asian land of Mesopotamia and the northeastern African land of Egypt about 3500 b.c. where the earliest known civilizations arose.

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