Human Migration and Settlement Powerpoint
Human Migration and Settlement Powerpoint
Human Migration and Settlement Powerpoint
AND SETTLEMENT
migration
[ m grysh'n ]
1) movement from one place to another: the act or process of moving from
one region or country to another
Draw in the arrows on your sheet, showing the different routes people took out of Africa.
The Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age, began around 12,000 years ago and
continued through about 8,000 years ago.
The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, lasted from 8,000 years until around
5,000 years ago.
As the Stone Age progressed, the tools people used
became more and more advanced. From simple
rocks to sharpened stones to tools made from bones
antlers, teeth and ivory.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/stone-age-toolkit.html
(open link to complete Tools Of The Stone Age worksheet)
As cultures became more complex and evolved, they needed to keep records about
their societies. Priests began to record who had donated religious offerings, traders
recorded their transactions among different groups of peoples, and leaders recorded
their victories in battle, as well as laws for their people to follow. Written language
began as pictures known as glyphs. These glyphs represented objects and ideas. Over
many thousands of years these glyphs have evolved becoming the letters that we use
today.
Many writing examples have been found in Egypt and Iraq that are to do with the
trading of grain, land, and animals. As Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), ancient Egypt, and
ancient India traded with each other, it is possible that the idea of
writing could have spread between them.
Mesopotamia was part of the Sumerian culture.
Their early writing has become known as
cuneiform (wedge-shaped) due to its style.
In Egypt, one of the oldest examples of a pictogram
is the name of a Pharoah, possibly written in about
3400 B.C. These ancient Egyptian symbols are
called hieroglyphs and are thought to have
developed from cuneiform symbols.