Unit 7 Overview: Agriculture and Complex Societies (9:13)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 02:38 Rachel argues that farming added a lot of complexity to our lives. What had to happen for the Standard of Ur box to exist?
- 03:00 How does the Standard of Ur provide us with evidence about how complex societies interacted?
- 05:10 How did early humans transform their environments?
- 06:02 What are sedentary foragers and why did these foragers become the first farmers?
- 07:29 How did farming lead to a social hierarchy, laws, and shared belief systems?
- 08:18 How do we know so much about the transition from foraging to farming to complex societies?