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Thur sday , January 10 th

Thur sday , January 10 th.

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Thur sday , January 10 th

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  1. Thursday, January 10th Bell-Ringer: Please take out (or pick up from the front table) your Cornell Notes from the first reading. Take a few minutes to review your notes. Then, in the summary section of your notes, write a brief paragraph answering the essential question, based on the information in your notes.

  2. Daily Agenda: • Bell-Ringer: Note Summarizing • Word of the Day  hedonist • Lecture: The Neolithic Revolution • Review Quiz • Practice AP Exam • Wiki Construction Essential Question: What were the long-term demographic, social, political, and economic effects of the Neolithic Revolution? Homework: Complete home page for your wiki

  3. Charlatan: A fake; fraud; imposter; cheat • Which of the following do you think is the Odd Word Out? Why? • Phony • Sham • Honesty • Con “Odd Word Out” Day 1, Period 2

  4. Hedonist: A PERSON WHO BELIEVES THAT PLEASURE IS THE CHIEF GOAL OF LIFE. • In Ancient Greece, the HEDONISTS urged their followers to “eat, drunk, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” Although it is a long way from Ancient Greece to the home of rapper Ricky Ross in Miami, the HEDONISTIC principle of pursuing pleasure remains the same. During the tour of his “crib,” Ross proudly displayed the interior of his Escalade Maybach, a Cadillac Escalade with the interior of a Maybach. Hooked up with leather seats, plasmas, and satellites, the interior provides everything a HEDONIST could possibly ask for. “Read-Aloud” Day 4, Period 1

  5. Hedonist: A PERSON WHO BELIEVES THAT PLEASURE IS THE CHIEF GOAL OF LIFE. • Explain how HEDONISTS are like other words that are familiar to you. • How is HEDONISM like celebrities? • How is HEDONISM like someone who does not enjoy doing homework? “Word Analogies” Day 4, Period 2

  6. answer • Explain how HEDONISTS are like other words that are familiar to you. • How is HEDONISM like celebrities? Some celebrities are only famous for attending parties. • How is HEDONISM like someone who does not enjoy doing homework? They go on the internet and try to get somebody else to write their paragraph while they go play video games and chat with their friends. “Word Analogies” Day 4, Period 2

  7. Prehistory Human development and the earliest civilizations

  8. Defining Humans • Hominid A family name for bipedal primate mammals. Hominids are warm-blooded, furry, four-limbed mammals. • Human Differences: (1) Opposable thumbs, (2) Increased Brain Size, and (3) larynx • Homo habilis  Homo erectus  Homo sapiens

  9. Migrations

  10. Maintaining Life • Food Gathering Mostly vegetable. 1 Sq. Mile for 2 people • Tool Making 2 million to 4,000 years ago used stone tools (also bone and wood) • Hunting: meat choppers  hand axes  Knives, spears, bows and arrows (7 hrs. every 3 days)

  11. Social Life • Gender Divisions • Men  Hunting • Women  Gathering • Family Life: • Size of clans • 20-50 people • Two-parent family • Why did this become necessary?

  12. Agricultural Revolutions • Why the shift? • Domestication and Semi-cultivation • New Technology: Slash-and-burn and swidden agriculture • Why not call it the Neolithic Revolution?

  13. Key Elements • Animal Domestication Dog first, then sheep, goats, cattle, water buffalo, pigs • Selective Breeding • Mixed farming and herding  Largely determined by environmental factors

  14. Ecological Crisis • Why did so many adopt Agriculture? (Holocene) • Why did others still reject agriculture? Pastoralism ruled in N. America, Australia, and Northern Eurasia • Demographic Shifts: 2 million people 13,000 years ago, 50-100 million people 7,000 years ago.

  15. Life in Neolithic Communities • Benefits and Risks? • Violent or peaceful process? • Expansion = surpluses and slow rate • Rise of Institutions Nuclear families (no), kinship networks (yes)

  16. Cultural Expressions • Religion Shift to focus on Earth Mother, Sky God, and ancestor cults • Language  Likely necessitated out of trade (Similarity in language groups)

  17. Review Quiz: Keeping your notes out for the quiz, please log-on to your computer and visit: chswhap.wikispaces.com Click on the daily agendas page. Using the link provided, enter your name and begin your quiz. You may use your notes, but are limited to only 10 minutes to complete the quiz.

  18. AP Pre-Test… After you finish your quiz, return to the class wiki. Go to the “Bell-Ringers” page and find the link for the AP Pre-Test. You will have no more than 20 minutest to complete the 25 question test. The purpose of the test is to expose you to the type of questions you can expect on the AP Exam (and throughout this class) and allow us to show your growth over the course of the semester.

  19. Creating Your Wiki… • Using the handout provided, silently read the directions on how to create your wiki. • Take a few minutes to sign-up for your wiki and invite me as a member. • Your homework assignment for tonight it to get registered for your wiki and create a welcome screen for your home page (see directions)

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