FC.005 The Domestication of Animals and its impact

About the same time people first were learning to farm, they were domesticating animals for their own purposes. Like the previous lesson on agriculture, this one starts out drawing upon Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" to look at why the Middle East was especiallyfavored ffor this development. It then looks at the sequence of first domesticated and their uses. A later flowchart and lesson (FC.009) look at the relations between settled farmers and pastoral nomads, one of the most important aspects of history until c.1500 C.E.



This is a self-contained PowerPoint that develops slide by slide while other notes for the students scroll down the side. It can be run as a timed presentation on its own, presented slide by slide for discussion, or integrated into your other lectures. There are also extensive pictures with captions mixed in to illustrate the lesson and capture students’ interest. This packet also contains a student reading, flowchart, and the author’s own research notes which contain lots of details and interesting trivia to spice up your class.
NOTE: I’m in the process of converting all the Powerpoints to a new color scheme over the next year. If I haven’t converted this Powerpoint to the new color scheme, I’ve included the whole flowchart in the newer color scheme on the second slide, so you can convert the other slides. Also, if you buy the old version now, you can e-mail.me so I can give you the updated version when it’s ready, free of charge.

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