This lesson contains 47 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
Items in this lesson
1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.4 Living from farming
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When the last Ice Age was over, prehistoric people in the Middle East started to become farmers.
They no longer moved around, but lived in one place.
Here they could grow crops and keep animals. Pottery was invented, to store things.
What is this lesson about?
Slide 2 - Slide
What you can do after this lesson
explain when and why first agriculture began in the near east
explain how the first farmers discovered how to grow their own crops
explain the meaning of domestication
explain how the first farmers lived
Slide 3 - Slide
Word Duty
Ice Age: periods in the past when areas of the world were covered by ice and it was very cold
Agriculture: a way of living where people grow their own crops and keep animals
Fertile Crescent: area around the rivers Tigris, Euphrates and Nile
Agricultural revolution: farming was introduced, a completely new way of living in prehistory
Domestication: tame animals for your own use
Pottery: an invention of farmers to store products
KEY WORDS
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FERTILE CRESCENT
the Fertile Crescent = the place where the first civilisations started
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Mesopotamia= The Fertile Crescent
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Now it's time to dance!
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Slide 8 - Video
The first farmers still do a lot by hand.
Farming was hard, but hunting was much harder!
Through the invention of animal breeding they now use domesticated animals for that purpose...
Hmm...
Welk dier zou dit werk voor me kunnen doen?
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Bad harvest = hunger!
Farmers were now more dependent on nature. If the harvest was fogged or the season was bad, it was more difficult to survive. In the past as a hunter you would just move on. Farmers did this less quickly, they had more property!
Hunters or farmers?
How do you recognize that these are farmers and not hunters?
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Farmers..
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long house
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Iedereen in dezelfde kamer, ook vee! Veilig en warm!
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What would you choose?
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Farmers invent graffiti rituals when someone dies.
They think about a life after death. Commemorate the dead.
They learn how to bury or cremate.
As a hunter you couldn't stand still, you had to move on. Move on!
Farmers live in the same place. Stand still... and remember. Cemeteries arise...
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What remains...
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Hunebedden
Graves are becoming bigger, near the farms.
Both buried and cremated: urn fields
They can, now that they can make pots!
The dead were given possessions: presumably believing in life after death
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Agricultural revolution
The moment when people switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture
This was a big change in society
(Society of hunters and gatherers --> agricultural society)
A revoltuion means: a big change in society.
Life changed completely!!!
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What is?
change and continuity (in history lessons)?
Change: this means that something ends and is replaced by something different.
For example: When the Roman monarchy ended and Rome became a Republic.
A system of government was replaced by a very different system. So this is "change".
Continuity: this means that somethings continues, or "keeps going on" .
For example: After the fall of the western Roman empire Christianity continued as an important religion.
In other words: If Christianity had ended with the Roman empire we would speak of "change", but in this case we speak of "continuity".
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Hunters & Farmers
A hunter has not much possessions
A farmer has much possessions
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The nature rules
Hunters learn to sow and harvest. In this way they gain control over nature. They don't have to look for everything anymore, but decide for themselves where it grows! That is more convenient! Hunters gradually become farmers.
Stay in one place
They sometimes say, from horn to her. Then you go everywhere, in all directions. The invention of agriculture meant that hunters no longer had to pull. They therefore made better huts. From clay or loam instead of animal skins.
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People
collect
stuff
Farmers
had
more and more possessions:
clothing,
a house,
stuff,
animals...
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Write down the correct definition of both words:
1. change: 2. continuity:
Slide 24 - Open question
What is a different word for agriculture?
Slide 25 - Open question
For each statement, choose the correct answer. 2. There have been several ice ages in the past.
This is an example of:
A
change
B
continuity
Slide 26 - Quiz
For each statement, choose the correct answer. 1. prehistoric people have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years
This is an example of:
A
change
B
continuity
Slide 27 - Quiz
For each statement, choose the correct answer. 3. hunter-gatherers became farmers during prehistory.
This is an example of:
A
change
B
continuity
Slide 28 - Quiz
For each statement, choose the correct answer. 4. For the last 10,000 years, there were no ice ages.
This is an example of:
A
change
B
continuity
Slide 29 - Quiz
Put the events in the correct chronological order
Plant the seeds of grain.
Make small fields for the grain to grow.
Collect grain seeds in the wild.
Now you grow your own grain crops.
Save some grain seeds for the next year.
Slide 30 - Drag question
fertile
villages
grain
population
Nile
crescent moon
10,000
Slide 31 - Drag question
The domestication of pigs began 80,000 years ago.
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
Slide 32 - Quiz
The first animals to be domesticated were goats and sheep.
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
Slide 33 - Quiz
Animals were selected for their useful characteristics.
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
Slide 34 - Quiz
It took hundreds of years before the animals were tame.
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
Slide 35 - Quiz
Pigs were selected for the amount of flesh they had.
A
TRUE
B
FALSE
Slide 36 - Quiz
Explain the joke, and use the word "domestication" in your answer.
Slide 37 - Open question
Farmers
Hunter-Gatherers
moving from place to place
finding grain, fruit and vegetables
hunting animals and fishing
small groups
only few possessions that can be carried
Farming was a big change in the way prehistoric man lived. So what changed exactly?
Drag each change to the correct place in the table.
large groups
pottery
domesticating animals
growing your own crops
living in one place
(= settling)
Slide 38 - Drag question
Pottery was used for storage. Can you name three things the early farmers would have stored in this new invention?
Slide 39 - Open question
Name at least three things you need to make pottery.
Slide 40 - Open question
Look at source 1.23 in Agriculture in our region (Theory F). Write down at least three characteristics of the first farmers you can see in this drawing.
Slide 41 - Open question
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
so the people
in the Fertile Crescent
The population
needed to find
new farm land
was growing,
Slide 42 - Drag question
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
around 5300 BC
appeared
The first farmers
in our region
Slide 43 - Drag question
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
had pottery
shaped like a funnel
that was
The builders
of the Hunebedden
Slide 44 - Drag question
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
to decorate
used straight lines
Linear Pottery culture
their pottery
People from the
Slide 45 - Drag question
Write down one question about something from this lesson that you find difficult.