History 1113, Lecture Outline and Terms for:

The Emergence of Homo sapiens and the Agricultural and Urban Revolutions.

I. Beginnings
 

A. What Makes Human Beings Unique?
 
 
 
 





 
 
 

B. Human Origins in Africa
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

C. Early Hominids: Australopithecus and Homo erectus
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

II. Later Hominids
 

A. General Chronology
 
 
 
 
 
 
 














 
 
 
 

B.  Technology Summary
 
 
 
 
 

III. The Paleolithic Era -- Social Structure and Everyday Life
 

A. Chronology











 

B. Fire and Culture
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

C. Paleothic Life: Summary
 
 
 
 

 

IV. Neolithic Era --the New Stone Age, a.k.a. the Agricultural Revolution
 

A. Chronology

Defining the Neolithic Era








What About the Period In Between?

B. Tracing It Stages
 

1. Necessary Conditions
 
 
 





 
 
 
 

2. The Transformation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. A Chronology of Food "Baskets."
 
 
 

 
 

4. A Chronology of Animal Domestication 

Why was the Middle East First?

 
 

C.  Results of Agricultural Revolution
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

D.  Trade
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

E. Ritual and Religion

1.  Beginnings of Trade

2.  First Inter-Cultural Exchanges

A.  Origins



 
 
 
 

B.  Geographic Locus of Urbanization
 

 
 
 

C.  Cities

Distinguishing Characteristics:

1. Stratification

2.  Centralized Control

3.  Sophisticated Land Ownership

4.  Regional and Inter-regional Hierarchies