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Students will learn that humans or homo sapiens evolved from a species known as hominids which later gave rise to homo erectus
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Following food sources, homo erectus and later sapiens began to migrate from a central location in Africa to Eastern Africa, the Middle East, India and China. This type of movement required that societies adapt to their new environments and their devleoping brains allowed them to do so.
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As hominids evolved into homo erectus, they developed primiative tools using nature resources to create knives, spears, and scraping devices. There is also a theory of how they discovered fire and began cooking food.
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Migrate to more resource-dense regions to develop culture and create societies such as Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt. There was also the emergence of argiculture and livestock.
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Students will learn that the evidence for our understanding of early civiliztion's evolution came from artifacts discovered in these regions and the date stamping these discoveries.
