Geography – Era 2 Mapping Part 1
STUDENT MATERIALSSTUDENT MATERIALSS-1GEOGRAPHY – ERA 2 MAPPING PART 1WORLD HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 2.0 ACTIVITYPurposeThis era follows the story of early humans as they spread across all regions of the world and developed farming. Agriculture developed independently at different times and in several different regions of the world. The purpose of this activity is to introduce you to the agricultural regions where farming first developed. The focus of this activity is on the task of identifying and predicting with maps. As the opening map activity for this era, this is intended to help orient you in time and space while raising some important questions about the geography you’ll encounter in his era.ProcessYou’ll begin this activity by identifying several agricultural regions that developed farming independently. Next, you’ll make some predictions (or guesses) about which of these regions developed farming the earliest and why. Step 1This activity is intended to introduce you to the major geographic regions that experienced agricultural revolutions. You’re not expected to have all the answers for this activity. Instead, you’ll make informed guesses, which you can confirm or correct as you move through Era 2 readings and videos. Your teacher will divide you into small groups, and your group should review the list of agricultural regions and attempt to label them on the blank map. Step 2With your group, choose the three agricultural regions you think might have developed farming at the earliest dates. In the worksheet, you should record the region, along with guesses for when you think farming developed and which crops people might have farmed there. Finally, write brief explanations for why your group thinks this region was likely to have developed farming so early. You should save these maps to reference in the Part 2 map activity later in this era.
Name:Date:Name:Date:STUDENT MATERIALSS-2GEOGRAPHY – ERA 2 MAPPING PART 1WORLD HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 2.0 ACTIVITYStep 1Directions: The list below includes nine regions where agriculture developed independently. Label each region on the blank map.
Name:Date:Name:Date:STUDENT MATERIALSS-3GEOGRAPHY – ERA 2 MAPPING PART 1WORLD HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 2.0 ACTIVITYScavenger: 1. India2. Fertile Crescent3. China4. West Africa5. Ethiopia6. Andes and Amazonia7. Eastern North America8. Mesoamerica9. Papua New Guinea Step 2Directions: Choose the agricultural region where you think farming developed earliest. Write a guess for how long ago you think farming developed in that place and what crops might have been farmed first. Then, provide a brief (1-3 sentence) explanation for why you think this region developed farming so early. Note: historians’ understandings of early agriculture continue to change as new evidence and new tools, like genetic testing, continues to reshape our ideas about when and where agriculture first emerged. RegionExplanationDate of first farming:Crops: Explanation: