EARLY HUMANS PROJECET

BIPEDAL

• The Australopithecus Afarensis, Lucy was the first hominid to be bipedal.
• Bipedal is the ability to walk on your feet and have free arms.

HOW BIPEDAL EFFECTS MODERN DAY

• This ability effects modern life because it allows us to write play sports walk and do many other things.

SHELTER

• Shelter was started by the homo Erectus and is still used today.
• The first shelter they used was an oval hut covered in leaves and branches.
• Another shelter they used was large caves.

HOW SHELTER EFFECTS MODERN DAY LIFE

• Shelter is very important today because people need places to live.
• Today we make shelters very large like skyscrapers.
• We build shelters today out of metal and other items.

CONTROL OF FIRE

• Control of fire was started by homo erectus.
• This was important because it kept them warm and allowed them to cook food.
• They used fire in Asia, Africa, Europe.

HOW THE CONTROL OF FIRE EFFECTS MODERN DAY

• Fire effects today cause we use it to keep warm , cook smelt ,and make things.

AGRICULTURE

• Agriculture started in the Neolithic age.
• Agriculture is farming and the domestication of animals
• They started farming when they learned how to plant seeds for food.
• Domestication was started when they learned how to use animals for human uses like meat milk and hauling.

HOW AGRICULTURE EFFECTS MODERN DAY

• Agriculture effects today because we are able to have pets, and use animals for more uses.
• Also it helped us today by have a stable food supply because we have more seeds to plant.

TRADE

• Trade was very important in Neolithic times because it helped people get what they needed or didn't have.
• They traded for things like flint, obsidian, hematite, and beauty products.

HOW TRADE EFFECTED MODERN DAY

• Trade is not used as much as it was in the Neolithic times cause we use money to pay for things we want instead of having to give an item.
• But we still do trade to get resources.

PERMANENT SHELTER

• In the Neolithic age people started to build permanent shelters cause they didn't have to move around as much as the Paleolithic age.
• They built permanent shelters out of packed mud bricks and then they started adding branches and stone.
• The shelters were rectangular and had different rooms.

HOW PERMANENT SHELTER EFFECTS MODERN DAY LIFE

• Permanent shelter effected today because it helped us get better at building permanent shelter into large buildings and houses.

WRITING

• The first form of writing was called cuneiform which means wedge.
• Cuneiform was started 2400 B.C.E
• At first there were 2000 letters but then they narrowed it down to 700.
• Cuneiform help them a lot with communication.

HOW WRITING EFFECTS MODERN DAY

• Writing effected modern day cause we were able to narrow it down to the alphabet.
• Also helps modern day cause it is so easy to communicate with some one.

CITY STATES

• City states were large walled cities that started in 3500.
• One city state that was around then is Ur.

HOW CITY STATES EFFECTED MODERN DAY

• City states effected modern day because we were able to make city states into countries and states.

IRRIGATION

• Irrigation gave people a stable food and water supply because it allowed them to have a stable water supply.
• One of the parts of the irrigation system where levees, which kept the water from flooding them.

HOW IRRIGATION EFFECTS MODERN DAY

• Irrigation effects modern day because it still helps us grow food and get water.
• But water plants are more useful today.

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