Recap Hunters and farmers

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The first humans

Where do humans come from?

What is a creation narrative

1. A bedtime story
2. A story about the creation of man and the world
3. A book written by Charles Darwin
4. The development of humans

Creation narratives

• Often tied to religion
• God created earth and everything on it
• Giant turtle 

What was the idea of Charles Darwin

1. Theory of animals
2. Theory of man
3. Theory of history
4. Theory of evolution

Survival of the fittest

• Not the strongest survive
• Those who adapt best survive
• Think of giraffes or polar bears

Who were the ancestors of humans?

1. Apes
2. Badgers
3. Cats
4. Dinosaurs

From which continent did the first humans spread

1. Asia
2. America
3. Europe
4. Africa

Out of Africa theory

• Man evolved in africa
• Then spread across other continents
• Homo Sapiens adapted to differnt climates 

Why is it called pre-history

1. Because it is before the birth of Christ
2. because it is before the first settlements
3. Because man had not discovered the entire world yet
4. Because people could not write

What can we learn from cave paintings?

1. How early humans hunted
2. What kind of tools early humans used
3. What animals early humans hunted
4. The way early humans lived

What do you know about
Hunter-gatherers

Hunter-gatherers

• Small groups
• Nomads
• Few belongings

Why was it called the stone age?

1. People built their houses from stone
2. People used stone tools
3. People cooked with stones
4. We only found stone remains from this time

What was the neolithic revolution

1. The change from stone to bronze tools
2. The change from bronze to iron tools
3. The discovery of fire
4. The change to agriculture

Climate change

• Temperature was rising
• Ice disappeared
• Land became right for agriculture 

Where was agriculture first discovered

1. Netherlands
2. Mexico
3. Middle east
4. China

What was the first animal that man domesticated

1. Wolf
2. Horse
3. Cow
4. Chicken

Domestication

• Because of farming man could not follow the herds
• Man started to tame animals
• Over time man started with selective breeding

Why could the farming villages support more people?

1. Safety of the houses
2. They had more children
3. Surplus of the food
4. Less diseases

Surplus of food

• More food led to bigger population
• But also to specialisation
• Specialisation let to more trade

who had more inequality?

1. Hunter-gatherers
2. Farmers

Wealth inequality

• People can gather more items now they live in one place.
• Some have more items and bigger fields than others
• Specialist can gather wealth from trade 

Grave monuments

• We can see differences in wealth trough graves
• More important people had better grave goods
• this shows signs of afterlife 

Think of at least one question that you still have.