STEPS TO CIVILIZATION

Hunting and Gathering

• Nomadic
• Wild plants and wild animals
• Harpoons, Spears, Knives, Blades, Stone, and Wood

Hunting and Gathering

• Not always enough food
• Always on move
• Had to adjust
• Bad if sick or injured
• Could die while hunting

HUNTING AND GATHERING:

Always variety of food and
could learn different skills.

• Learned many skills
• Big variety of food

FARMING:
Giant step towards civilization. 3 Hypothesis to how it started: Spilled-Grain, Watching-the-Animals, and the Moov'en-and Groov'en Hypothesis.

FARMING:
Humans began growing crops and plants. They also started raising and training their animals.

FARMING:
People now had a dependable food source and had settled down. Gradually, communities began to grow as well.

• Dependable food source
• Settled down

CITIES:
Some people stopped farming and developed other skills. They formed villages which grew into towns and then cities.

CITIES:
Safer for people to live in and helped develop weapons and tech. Cities developed unique characteristics and helped different groups solve problems.

Cities