Prehistory Geography Unit Guide PDF August 2024

World History I Civilizations/Honors – Mr. Koch Name: August 2024 Test date: September___ Unit I Guide: Geography & Prehistory Key Topics to understan...

World History I Civilizations/Honors – Mr. Koch Name: August 2024 Test date: September___ Unit I Guide: Geography & Prehistory Key Topics to understand and demonstrate proficiency: The evolution from surviving to thriving for early people and societies (group activity and class discussion) Major geographic concepts (from presentation/small group activity and class discussion) The physical development of humankind (From presentation/notes) Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras (Textbook/HW assignment and Class activity/video) The Eight (8) Characteristics of developing early civilizations (group activity and class discussion) Key terms to define and help support the key topic above: Agriculture Anthropology Lucy Artifact Artisan Archaeology City-State Glacier Bureaucracy Geography Hunter-gatherer Empire Longitude Nomad Historian Pictogram Polytheistic Latitude Scribe Technology Paleolithic plate tectonics Neolithic Agricultural Revolution Neolithic Domestication Location: absolute and relative Prehistory Mercator Projection Globe Diffusion of culture (ideas) Robinson Projection Government Belief Systems Art and Architecture Surplus Social Class Structure Job Specialization “Push” factors “Pull” factors Weather Climate Lascaux (France) Cave Drawings 8 Features of Civilization Stonehenge Key Places to locate, which fit with terms and help support understanding of concepts: Africa Antarctica Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Ocean Australia Europe Indian Ocean North America Pacific Ocean Pangaea South America Key People Australopithecus Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapien Donald Johansen Louis and Mary Leakey Neanderthal Cro-Magnon Key Questions: Be able to demonstrate a complete and thorough understanding of the following questions/prompts. Each is a possible unit assessment short answer question or prompt to be answered using assertive statements, evidence, and analysis (AKA, Critical Thinking/Writing Skills or FCPS’ Portrait of a Graduate). 1. Can you define at least two of the five themes of geography (location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and regions) giving an example for each? 2. What is meant by the term map projections? Is any map projection ever truly accurate? 3. Can you explain the difference between weather and climate? 4. How do mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes occur? 5. What sources are used to obtain information about prehistory? 6. How is technology used today to help learn about the past? 7. Explain the key steps to the physical and cultural development of humankind in our world. 8. What invention or ability of humans ended the prehistoric period? 9. Define then compare and contrast the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras in relation to: physical, cultural and psychological needs. * 10. What was the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution (NAR) and why was it important to the development of civilization? * 11. List some effects of the NAR on civilization.* 12. What factors can cause cultural diffusion (the spreading of culture)? 13. Identify, define and give an example for each of the Eight Features of Civilization.* (Not listed on your vocab sheet) 14. What factors caused the first civilizations to develop in river valleys? 15. For what purposes did early governments exist? How were they linked to religion? 16. List and characterize the differences between surviving and thriving (relative to this course)* *= Increased emphasis on the test!