PALEOLITHIC AGE

BIPEDALISM

• Being bipedal gave Australopethucs Afarensis the ability to walk, a trait that know other hominid had.
• Australopethucs Afarensis lived around 3-4 million years ago.
• They could now have their hand free so they could gather food and protect themselves and their children.

HOW BIPEDALISM CHANGED THE MODERN WORLD

• When Australopethucs Afarensis became bipedal they started living longer. With Australopethucs Afarensis living longer they began making knew tools and after a while they evolved into modern humans

STONE TOOLS

• Homo Habilis was found in Africa by the leakeys, Homo Habilis lived 1.5-2 million years ago they where the first hominid to make tools.
• Their brain was twice has big as Australopethucs Afarensis's which enabled them to create stone tools.
• The tools they made where made of stone sharpened by scraping it against a rock.
• They used them to cut meat off of dead animals.

HOW STONE TOOLS AFFECTED MODERN LIFE

• Stone tools where the first tools and enabled people's lives to be a bit easier.
• The tools got more and more advanced and eventually led to fire.

FIRE

• Fire was discovered by Homo Erectus about 1.8 million-200,000 BCE.
• It kept them from freezing and let them cook meat which gives meat more calories and protein.

HOW FIRE CHANGED THE WORLD

• Now we heat stuff with gas.
• We use fire for cars and planes.

NEOLITHIC AGE

AGRICULTURE

• Demostication and farming
• Let them stay in one place
• Domestication gave them horses to pull chariots and ox pull plows
• Farming and domestication

AGRICULTURE NOW

• Now we have tractors and mile long sprinklers instead of channels.

PERMANENT SHELTER

• The first houses where made of whatever materials there was. Like mud sticks and reeds.
• Usually people had a ladder that leads to the roof so people could get to a hole on top of a roof.

SHELTER NOW

• Now we make hoses out of anything, wood bricks glass cement metal etc.

TRADE THEN

• Trade was one of thing biggest ways people shared ideas.
• Once people started trading they could build better stronger things. Like how people could now get metal to make stronger weapons and buildings.

TRADE NOW

• Now we have huge cargo ships and planes so we get anything from anywhere.

EMERGENCE OF SUMER

SUMERIAN CITY-STATES

• The first city states where created because of the need of maintaining an irrigation system.
• First ones where around 3500 BCE.
• They had there own territory armies and irrigation system.
• The Kings got there power because the belief that that the gods gave them power.
• Some of the cities where Ur Assur Agade and Kish.

MODERN CITYS

• Today we have huge cities like New York.
• Modern cities don't have walls around them or fight with each other.
• Unlike Sumerian cities there isn't only one church or ziggurat.

ARMY THEN

• The Sumerian armies had their own class although some of them where professional and some where citizens.
• They both protected their city and conquered others.
• Some of their leaders where Sargon, Nebuchadnezzar, and Hammurabi.

MODERN ARMY

• Now we have guns planes tanks submarines helicopters jeeps etc.

WHEELS

• People think they discovered the wheel when their heavy stone pottery wheel spun off of its base and rolled away
• 3500 BCE
• The wheel chariot wheel was made by clamping two pieces of wood together

MODERN WHEELS

• Now we use wheels on nearly everything cars planes helicopters and a ton of other stuff

SOURCES

• Haiku Deck
• History Alive textbook