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The Earliest
Human Societies
Chapter
2
Before You Read: K-W-L
400,000
years ago
K-W-L stands for what you know, what you want to know,
and what you have learned.
• What do you already know about early human societies?
• Study the map and the time line. What do they tell you about
where early humans lived?
• What do you want to learn about the earliest human societies?
EUR OP E
1.8 million
years ago
1.5 million
years ago
700,000
years ago
AFR IC A
3.6 million
years ago
Big Ideas About the Earliest
Human Societies
Culture Ways of living change as humans interact
with one another.
The first humans hunted animals and gathered plants for food.
Then, as they interacted with one another, they developed tools
and weapons to aid them in these activities. New, more settled
ways of living developed as people shared ideas.
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120,000 years ago
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Integrated Technology
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2000 miles
2000 kilometers
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160°W
140°W
120°W
100°W
80°W
60°W
20°W
0°
20°E
▲
500,000 B.C .
Early humans learn how
to control fire.
(19th-century lithograph)
40°W
40,000 B.C .
Cro-Magnons appear.
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60°E
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Early Human Migration to 10,000 years ago
80°N
ARCTIC OCEAN
11,900
years ago
14,000
years ago
Arctic Circle
60°N
21,000
years ago
NOR TH
AM ER IC A
ASIA
12,000
years ago
11,000
years ago
600,000
years ago
40°N
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Tropic of Cancer
20°N
23,000
years ago
PACIFIC OCEAN
0°
SOUTH
AMERICA
700,000
years ago
12,000
years ago
20°S
Tropic of Capricorn
AUSTRALIA
I N D I AN
O C EAN
Fossil site
12,500
years ago
Migration route
33,000
years ago
40°S
Ancient coastline
Extent of last glacier, 18,000 B.C.
Land exposed by lower sea level, 18,000 B.C.
60°S
Antarctic Circle
100°E
120°E
140°E
160°E
180°
160°W
140°W
120°W
100°W
80°W
60°W
80°S
▲
8000 B.C .
First agriculture takes
place with tools such as
this wooden plow.
5000 B.C .
First cities begin
to develop.
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9000 B.C .
Domestication of
animals begins.
6000 B.C .
wh06pe-0102co-001-mImproved farming methods lead to
Early Human Migration to 10,000
larger settlements, such as Catal Huyuk,
Information Area: 101p3 wide X 58p d
from which this bronze Vital
deer comes.
▲
10,000 B.C .
Last ice age ends.
▲ (glacier dividing, Alaska)
3rd proof
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