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Why did European Civilization
Develop Differently than African
Civilization?
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Benchmark SOC.I.1.HS.3Identify some of the major eras in world historyand describe their defining characteristics.
Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.1Explain how major world processes affectdifferent world regions.
Benchmark SOC.II.4.HS.4Describe major patterns of economicdevelopment and political systems and explainsome of the factors causing them.
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Objectives
Students will understand how geography playeda significant role in Africa and Europesdevelopment
Students will understand how the developmentof agriculture and animal domestication leads togreater complex civilizations
Students will understand how complexcivilizations have advantages over less complexcivilizations
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The Major Ironic Questionto Think About
(Recommended 1stClick )
The Agriculture
AdvantageGeography
Matters
Help Amani
Activity
(Recommended
last Click)
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Africa is known as the cradle of mankind. It is here that human life first
began. Some time around 100,000 to 50,000 years ago some people
started slowly moving out of Africa and into the Middle East, Europe,
Asia, and Australia.
Click for
Major Ironic
Question
Africa - where
humans first
lived
Archeologistshave found the
earliest human
remains here
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If humans lived in Africa
before they lived
anywhere else in the
world, then why were
Europeans the first todevelop a civilization that
allowed them to conquer
and exploit Africa,
instead of Africansdeveloping a civilization
that allowed them to
conquer and exploit
Europeans?
Click for
Understanding Check
Doesnt it seem like Africans would have the
development advantage over Europeans
because they lived on the same land for
thousands of year longer? Wouldnt this give
them more time to be settled and develop
technology that could eventually help themconquer Europeans and the rest of the world?
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What is the ironic question that this
activity is going to answer?
A) Why did the civilizations of the Middle East and Europe develop ina way that allowed them to conquer and exploit Africa, despiteAfrican development having thousands of years head start
B) Why did the civilizations of Africa develop in a way that allowed
them to conquer and exploit the Middle East and Europe, despiteEuro/Middle Eastern development having a thousands of yearshead start
ReviewInformation
Review MajorIronic Question
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Correct!Remember!!! The irony is that the people of Africa lived there for thousands of
years before people ever moved into the Middle East and Europe. But despite the
head start in civilization development, it would be the people of the Middle East
and Europe who developed their civilizations in a way that eventually was able toconquer and exploit Africa
Ab t 10 000
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About 10,000 years ago a
major difference
occurred amongst those
people living in Africaand those people living
in the regions of the
Middle East and Europe.
This difference was:
The
development of
agriculture andanimal
domestication
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But while this development in farming 10,000 years ago
took place in parts of the Middle East and Europe. The
people of Africa remained hunting and gathering their food
for another 5,000 years
Whi h A f th ld th
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Which Area of the world was the
first to develop agriculture and
animal domestication?
A) Africa
B) Europe/Middle EastD) None of the above
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Correct!
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So Why Does It Matter Who Developed
Agriculture First?
Click When Ready To Play
The Development GameObjective:Help the hunter/gatherer Grog find enough
food to stay alive and develop his civilization
Rules:
1) Choose from one of three hunting/gathering areasto go and look for food
2) Some areas will have food. Others will not. If you
dont find food your hunger meter will decrease. If
you find food it will increase.
3) Each time you go hunting you will spend the entireday walking to the area and hunting/gathering for
food
4) After each day click on the Caesar icon to see how
his civilization's development is doing in the
Middle East/Europe part of the world
Grog
(Hunter/Gatherer)
Caesar
(Farmer/Animal
Domesticator)
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Choose
which area I
should huntand gather in
Food Bar:
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I just spent a
whole day
hunting and
gathering
but I foundnothing
Hows
Caesars
Development?
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Choose
which area I
should hunt
and gather in
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I just spent awhole day
hunting and
gathering but I
found nothing.
Now Im starving!
Hows
Caesars
Development?
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Its nice to know that when you
grow and raise your own food,you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead
of always having to move where
the food is. And now Ive got
extra time to invent weapons that
will be able to kill anyone whotries to rob my farm, animals, or
home!
Return to
Hunting/Gathering
with Grog
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Choose
which area I
should hunt
and gather in
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Starving Hungry Full Extra Food To Trade
Its nice to know that when you grow and
raise your own food, you can stay in one
place. Now I can build a home to live in
instead of always having to move where
the food is. And now Ive got extra time to
invent weapons that will be able to kill
anyone who tries to rob my farm, animals,
or home. Now my farm has produced extra
food that I can use as a trade good. Withall this trading Ive now invented a method
of writing so that I can keep track of my
financial accounts.
Return to
Hunting/Gathering
with Grog
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Starving Hungry Full
Choose
which area I
should hunt
and gather in
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Starving Hungry Full
I just spent awhole day
hunting and
gathering but I
found nothing.
Now Im starving!
Hows
Caesars
Development?
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Starving Hungry Full Extra Food To Trade
Its nice to know that when you grow and raise
your own food, you can stay in one place. Now I
can build a home to live in instead of always
having to move where the food is. And now Ive
got extra time to invent weapons that will be ableto kill anyone who tries to rob my farm, animals,
or home. Now my farm has produced extra food
that I can use as a trade good. With all this
trading Ive now invented a method of writing so
that I can keep track of my financial accounts.
This invention of writing has allowed me and
other people to start writing laws so that we can
live amongst each other peacefully, and help fight
off other cities that we dont agree with.
Return toHunting/
Gathering
with Grog
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Starving Hungry Full
Choose which
area I should
hunt and gather
in
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Starving Hungry Full
I just spent a whole day
hunting and gathering
but I found nothing. If Idont eat soon Im going
to die. I better leave this
entire area and hope to
find food somewhere
else.
Hows
Caesars
Development?
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Starving Hungry Full
Grog? Grog? Wheres Grog?
Hes probably either died from
starvation, moved on to areas where he
can find food, been killed by Caesar and
his army, or taken as Caesars slave.
Wh t d t did C i ili ti
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What advantage did Caesars civilization
have over Grogs, that helped his
civilization develop faster?
A) Caesars civilization did not have any advantages
B) Caesars civilization had agriculture, which meant they had a steadyfood source. This allowed them to stay in the same place and nothave to constantly worry about where their next meal would comefrom. Having a constant food supply allowed his civilization the extratime to start developing other technologies
C) From the beginning, Caesars civilization had better weapons than
Brogs civilization. Thus they were able to conquer them
C t!
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Correct!
The humans living in the Middle East and Europe developedagriculture first. This meant that they stopped the nomadic lifestyle of living wherever there was a source of food. Once thehumans had a constant, dependable source of food, theycould stay put and spend their extra time not on having toworry about food, but instead building homes and inventing
new technologies like weapons or writing. These technologieswould continue to build upon each other until the societies inthe Middle East and Europe were vastly more complex in termsof technology and the ability to conquer and explore otherparts of the world.
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Geography Matters
Geography of
Crops
Geography of
Animals
Choose
Of all the plants in the world only a few have allowed
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Of all the plants in the world, only a few have allowed
themselves to be grown in large numbers which will then
yield a product that can be consumed for food.
For the people of the
Middle East and
Europe, the crops of
wheat and barely
happened to be nativeto these areas.
Africa too had its own native crops such as yams
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Africa too had its own native crops such as yams
and millets. But these native crops were not
develop into agriculture until a few thousand years
after the people of the Middle East and Europe werealready growing their own food.
Yams? Wheat? Whats the
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Yams? Wheat? What s the
difference? Its all just food.
Actually, the people of the
Middle East and Europe hadthe geographic advantage of
being on a landmass that is
heavily oriented towards the
direction longitude. Whereas
the African continent is moreoriented towards latitude.
Latitude lines on the map that go horizontally across Latitude is
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Latitude lines on the map that go horizontally across. Latitude is
measured from the equator, with positive values going north
and negative values going south
Longitudelines on the map that go up and down. Longitude
is measured from the Prime Meridian (which is the longitude
that runs through Greenwich, England) with positive values
going east and negative values going west.
This is the
equator a lineof latitude that
moves north
and south
This is the Prime
Meridian a line oflongitude that
moves east and
west
Q i k Q ti
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The lines on this earth are:
A)Latitude Lines
B) Longitude Lines
Quick Question:
C t!
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Correct!
What do you think would cause you to
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What do you think would cause you to
experience a more dramatic change in
temperature? Moving from latitude tolatitude or longitude to longitude?
A) Latitude
B) Longitude
Correct!
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Correct!Moving latitudes can increase or decrease the temperatures that a person feels
more significantly than moving longitudes. Every time a person moves latitudes
they move either further away or closer to the equator, which is the hottest area
on the earth. Therefore, if a person moves away from the equator thetemperatures get colder, and if they move towards it, the temperatures get
hotter.
Equator
Whereas moving
between longitudes
keeps a person in the
relatively same
climate/temperature
zones.
How Does latitude and longitude affect crops?
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The Wheat, Yam, Barley, and Millet Game
Objective:
Pick the two crops that will be able to travel across the most land
area and still be planted. If your crops fades (dies) you
chose poorly.
The game is on your honor (you can click on them all if you want).
Click the arrow button when youre done
How Does latitude and longitude affect crops?
Wheat Yam Barely Millet
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Think about the game Which crops
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Think about the game. Which crops
were more likely to spread across
the land?A) The Crops in the Middle East/Europe
B) The Crops in Africa
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Considering how crops react to
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Considering how crops react to
temperatures, which civilization
would have an easier time spreadingout and populating the land?
A) The civilizations in Africa
B) The civilizations in the Middle East
and Europe
Below are some of the animals that are
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Below are some of the animals that are
native to both the African and Middle
Eastern/European regions
Why Didnt people in Africa domesticate animals like
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y p p
lions and giraffes as the people of the Middle East and
Europe domesticated the sheep and cow?
Watch the time line
Humans in Africa hunt the native animals.
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There are no humans in the Middle East and
Europe100,000 Years Ago
Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa
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while there are still no Humans in the Middle
East and Europe50,000 Years Ago
Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But because the
i l i Af i h b h d b h f l h
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animals in Africa have been hunted by humans for so long they
are now starting to develop a healthy fear of them. There are still
no humans in the Middle East and Europe
25,000 Years Ago
Humans continue to hunt animals in Africa. But because the animals in Africa have
been hunted by humans for so long they are now starting to develop a healthy fear
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been hunted by humans for so long they are now starting to develop a healthy fear
of them. Now the animals do not live as close nor do they come as close as they
once did. The animals know humans will hurt them. Human have just arrived in the
Middle East and Europe. The animals have no idea that they should be afraid of
humans.
10,000 Years Ago
Because humans hunted the African animals for so long, the animals developeda fear to stay as far away as possible and never developed the mentality to be
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a fear to stay as far away as possible and never developed the mentality to be
domesticated. Whereas the animals in the Middle East and Europe never had a
chance to develop a fear of man as the they were quickly domesticated instead of
being hunted for such a long period of time.
5,000 Years Ago
Why did Africans have a hard time
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Why did Africans have a hard timedomesticating their animals?
A) Africans never had a hard time domesticating
their animals
B) Africans had been hunting their native animalsfor so long that over time the animalsdeveloped a fear of man and an instinct to stayaway
C) The Europeans Attacked the Africans beforethey could domesticate
Correct!
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Correct!Keep Your
Distance Boys,
hes had that
spear for the
last 100,000
years!
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Hi,
my name is Amani Jones. I am looking to start a
civilization, but I am not sure where I should start it
or what I should do when I get there. Could you
please pick the factors that I need to have so that
my society will quickly develop into one that will
invent new technologies and give me the
capabilities to conquer other places in the world if I
chose to? Then will you please click on the button
that says reasons for choices and type in your
explanations? Make sure you print out yourreasons when you are done and turn them into that
wonderful World Studies teacher Mr. Abeel.
Thanks for your help,
Amani
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Do I want a civilization that is on a piece
of land which is oriented more towards
latitude or longitude?
Do I want a civilization that has spent
thousands of years hunting the animals before
I domesticate them or one that has never seen
the animals that I will domesticate?
Do I want a civilization that
develops agriculture and
domesticates animals or do I
want a civilization that is based
around hunters and gatherers?
Reason for
Choices
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Think about all that you have learned about civilization
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Think about all that you have learned about civilization
development. What one major factor do you think allowed
people in the Middle East and Europe to develop a civilization
that allowed them to conquer the continent and people ofAfrica, instead of the people of Africa conquering the people
of the Middle East and Europe?
A) Agricultural developmentB) Animal domestication
C) Geography
D) Hunting and Gathering
Correct!!!
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