Division 605

Social Studies Term One Review

Canadian Geography Test

Civilization Game

Civilizations Information

1. In Europe and Africa

In Europe Neanderthals 35 000 BCE to 3 500 BCE

Homosapiens walked up from Africa through the Middle East and into Europe
around 10 000 BCE to Current

Sumer and the Sumerians 3 500 BCE 2004 BCE

Next we may study the Greeks, Romans, German Barbarians,

2. In North America and South America

First Nations forerunners walk over the ice bridge between Asia and North America
35 000 to 10 000 during the last ice age.
Maya 4 000 BCE

Vikings arrive in North America in 1000 CE

3. Asia
The first Chinese dynasty started in 1600 BCE 1046 BCE Shang Dynasty

Reasons to Settle
1. Natural Resources
-rivers for fishing and transportation
- forests for lumber and hunting
- grasslands for wheat
2. People
- areas people settle in need to be safe and provide opportunity for population
growth
3. Technology
- where people choose to settle dictates the technology they develop. Civilizations
must continually create better technologies or be in danger of being dominated by
more advanced cultures.

Forming a Community
1. Leadership
- to tribes forming a community requires a clear leader or squabbles will ensue
- ways of doing things evolve into rules and rules gradually become Codes of Laws

Civilizations need a Code of Laws

But also require Five Things
a. Advanced Cities
b. Specialized Workers (4:37)
c. Complex Institutions: army, tax collectors, religion
d. Record Keeping
e. Advanced Technologies

Three Ways Societies Disappear

1. Natural Disasters including disappearance of water or destruction of farmlands.

2. War
3. Diseases or Plagues

Activists weve talked about:

Malala

Videos about the World Weve Watched in Class

World Population Animation
Plastic Ocean
Living on a Dollar
The True Cost
Man the Animation
Long Spoons
Caveman Technologies close quarters spear, throwing spear, spear
chucker, bone and stone tools, bone needle, clubs, jewellery, leather, wooden clubs,
hunting and farming, fire

Sumerian Inventions - 60s number system, Hammurabis Code of 282 laws,

the wheel, sails for boats,