12/03/2020 social UNIT 5 1 Periods of history History is divided into different periods: Prehistory, Ancient History, Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, Modern Age. Each period of history starts and ends with an important event. 2 1
12/03/2020 Periods of history Ancient History started Prehistory started when when people invented humans first appeared. writing. The Middle Ages The Modern Age started The Early Modern Age started when the when the French started when Columbus Roman Empire fell. Revolution happened. discovered America. 3 The Paleolithic Period Paleolithic people lived in caves or huts made of tree branches and animal skins. Paleolithic people made tools from stone, wood and animal bones. The oldest and longest period in Prehistory is the Paleolithic Period. Paleolithic people were nomadic because they went from one place to another. They hunted and fished to get food. During this period people discovered how to make fire. 4 2
12/03/2020 The Neolithic Period The Neolithic Period was the beginning of agriculture and trade. Neolithic people cultivated crops, raised animals and exchanged products. They discovered how to cultivate plants from seeds. People became sedentary and lived in huts in villages. 5 The Bronze and Iron Ages The Bronze and Iron Ages was the discovery of how to make objects from metal. First they used copper, then bronze and then iron. People invented the wheel and lived in villages. There they could do more jobs, like artisans, farmers, metalworkers or traders. 6 3
12/03/2020 What have we learnt? The periods of history are … Ancient Early Modern History Age Middle Prehistory Modern Age Ages 7 What have we learnt? Paleolithic people … used lived in caves hunted and animal or huts fished skins used were used stone made fire made tools animal nomadic and wood bones 8 4
12/03/2020 What have we learnt? Neolithic people … became lived in were farmers sedentary huts cultivated raised were exchanged animals crops artisans products 9 What have we learnt? Bronze and Iron Age people … were used continued to copper, metalworkers, live in bronze and artisans, villages iron farmers exchanged melted invented more metal the wheel products 10 5
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