chapter one outline for earht and its people ap world
Subject:
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) - 3000 years after the ice age
- Consisted of foragers
- Used stone tools (name)
Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people
- Little evidence that Stone Age people were foragers
- Doughnut shaped stones served as weights
Neolithic (New Stone Age) - Origin of agriculture
- Era of food production or “Neolithic Revolution”
Agricultural Revolutions - Emphasizes the central role of food production
- Domestication of animals for food
- Started with foragers scattering seeds of their favorite foods
- Polished or ground stone heads made to work the soil
Çatal Hüyük - A large Neolithic town that existed from 7000-5000 B.C.E
- 32 acres of land
- Housing is plastered mud brick rooms
