WH1 9th grade Research Paper (early civilizations): Honors WH1

To what extent did Second Wave civilizations such as Greece, Persia, India, and Rome represent “progress” in comparison with earlier Paleolithic and Neolithic societies?

• Second Wave civilizations trading map
• The First Farmers in Africa, the Cradle of Humanity
• Ways of the World Chapter

To what extent was the Agricultural Revolution a cultural, social, OR economic continuity in world history?

• Neolithic Inequality at Catalhuyuk

• Birth of a Concept and Origins of the Neolithic

• Transition to Farming: Different Perspectives

• First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago

• The First Farmers in Africa, the Cradle of Humanity

• The Seeds of Civilization

• Stone Age Man’s Use of Power

In the period up to 600 BCE, gathering and hunting communities began to decline in different parts of the world in favor of agricultural ones. 

Develop an argument that evaluates how this decline changed family and governmental structures in agricultural societies.

• Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies

• Social, political, and environmental characteristics of early civilizations

• The Early Farming and Early Urban phases

• Gatherer-Hunter to Farmer: A Social Perspective

• Ground-Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for the Transition to Farming