Big Era 3: Farming/Emergence of Complex Societies 10,000–1000 BCE
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
1. Explain what is meant by the domestication of plants and animals and why farming permitted world population to grow and people to live in much larger and denser communities.
2. Analyze the differences between a hunting-gathering way of life and a settled agricultural one.
3. Discuss how agricultural societies developed around the world.
4. Explain how and where complex societies evolved and to describe their significant characteristics.
5. Describe ways in which the rate of change accelerated between 10,000 BCE and 1,000 BCE.
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
1. Explain what is meant by the domestication of plants and animals and why farming permitted world population to grow and people to live in much larger and denser communities.
2. Analyze the differences between a hunting-gathering way of life and a settled agricultural one.
3. Discuss how agricultural societies developed around the world.
4. Explain how and where complex societies evolved and to describe their significant characteristics.
5. Describe ways in which the rate of change accelerated between 10,000 BCE and 1,000 BCE.