HUNTERS AND GATHERERS

1. HUNTERS AND GATHERERS

2. The Earliest People • Probably lived in Africa. • The men hunted and the women gathered to have enough food to survive.

3. The Earliest People • They united in bands to meet their basis needs of food, clothing, and shelter. • In larger bands (50 – 100 people) not everyone had to gather food so a division of labor began(doing different jobs based on abilities and the band’s needs)

4. The Earliest People • They were nomads (without a settled home). • Experience taught them what foods made them sick or caused death.

5. Hunters and Gatherers/ Nomads • Nomads depended upon the weather and nature. • What would be some advantages of being a nomad?

6. The Earliest People • They migrated (moved from one place to the next) to find enough food to survive. • People began this migration process from Africa. • During the time of the Ice Age, people migrated across the Bering Strait into North America.

7. Early Cultures and Societies • People were set apart by art, beliefs, customs, and languages. • Language helped people join together into a society.

8. Early Cultures and Societies • Culture- a way of life (food, language, religion, clothes, hobbies). • Artifacts- objects that are human made from long ago.

9. EARLY FARMERS –Controlling Nature • Early people began to domesticate (tame living things-plants or animals- for humans use) and raise livestock. • The first domesticated animal was the dog—to help with hunting food.

10. Early Farmers • Agriculture- the raising of domesticated plants and animals- changed human societies forever.= a farming revolution! • Steady food supplies meant healthy, growing populations.

11. Early Farmers • Farming allowed people to live in one place forming smallvillagesand meeting their basic needs • Fewer people died of starvation. But people began to fight over land and steal food.

12. Early Farmers • Early people settled near river valleys because there was an abundance of water. • The flooding of these rivers caused the land tobecome more fertile so they could grow better and more crops. • And as they had more things to move from one area to another, the Sumerians invented the wheel and axle.

13. Early Farmers • Agriculture allowed people to depend on a reliable source of food, so people had more time to make tools like the plow which was invented by the Sumerians.

14. Trading • At this point in time, money had not been invented so people relied on bartering to exchange goods and/or services for goods and/or services.