From prehistory to civilization!!!

• LO1: Trace the key developments of prehistory, from the emergence of our human ancestors to the beginnings of village life.
• "Language, Religion, Art, Technology, Farming, Family Life, and village communities-All these basic features of human existence originated in prehistoric times."
• The temple of Amen: This temple, constructed about 1600 B.C. near the Egyptian city of Thebes, remains the world`s largest religious building today.
• Pre-history: The period before history was recorded through written documents
• Before civilizations the prehistoric Era
• The origins and "ages" of human beings
• "if we reduce the time since the first humanlike species appeared( about 2.5 million years ago) to the period of a twenty-four-hour day, the five, thousand-year era of civilization takes up less than the last three minutes."
• the earliest (and longest) prehistoric period is called Paleolithic
• The period of human history characterized by advances in stone tool making and the beginnings of agriculture is the Neolithic age
• The hunting and gathering way of life
• cave paintings: These images of wild beasts were painted about 25,000 years ago deep in a cave in southern France.
• Humans began to walk on 2 legs, releasing their hands to make and use tools and weapons; body hair thinned out, digestions weakened, clothing, cooking, and fire, brains grew larger, making possible language and abstract thought, complex manual and physical skills. 
•  Mesopotamia's lands were located in a place between the Tigris and Euphrates called The Fertile Crescent.
• Egypt being located in the southeast of Africa
• The agricultural Revolution
• Southwestern Asia: Humankinds first Agricultural revolution began in the lands of the Fertile Crescent, where farmers could depend on regular rainfall
• Agricultural Revolutions- shift from hunting and gathering food to a more settled way of life and based on farming and herding that occurred gradually between 8000 and 4000 BC in much of western Asia, northern Africa, and Europe, separately in other parts of the world