1.4 THE FIRST FARMERS

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1.4 The first farmers

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1.4 The first farmers

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agricultural revolution

Growing your own crops =arable farming 

1. putting cereal grains in soil 
2. Watering the crops 
3. harvesting the crops 

The first people who took up farming lived in the Middle East.

That was where another new development started thousands of years later: keeping animals.

The earliest farmers still went hunting as well, but gradually these people managed to tame some animals, such as cows, goats, sheep and pigs. The livestock provided them with milk, meat and wool. This was the start of livestock farming

Causes of the agricultural revolution 

Argricultural revolution 

took thousands of years

1. Climate change: The weather got better 
2. Expermenting 
3. Staying alive  

Big consequences 

1. Permanent houses 
2. More food = economy 
3. Increased social differences 
4. Culture change ( rich people) 
5. Poor Health ( Animals , less varied diet, failling harvest)  

Everybody in the same room. Warm and safe....!!

Farmers

had

more and more possessions:

clothing,

a house,

stuff,

animals...

Causes agriculture

2. 1000 years later started experimenting with agriculture. They learned more and more about plants and animals

What would you choose?

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Ways to learn History

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Where did the first farmers live?
Choose the correct letter.

1. Middle East
2. Europe
3. Africa
4. Asia

What was this area called?

1. Crescent moon
2. Fertile moon
3. Fertile crescent
4. Fertile Egypt

What is livestock?
choose the correct letter.

1. growing crops
2. keeping animals
3. Another word for domestication
4. agriculture

Why is Otzi's axe proof that he was a farmer or had contact with farmers?

1. An axe is only used by farmers for creating fields
2. Copper is a metal, therefor the axe can only be made by farmers

Hunter-Gatherers had a .... lifestyle

1. Sedentary
2. Nomadic
3. Chaotic
4. Diverse

The transition form Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers is called:

1. History
2. Agricultural Revolution
3. Prehistory
4. The first civilisations

What is a different word for agriculture?

1. harvest
2. farming
3. hunting
4. cattle breeding

The first farmers appeared in our region around ....

1. 10.000 AD
2. 5300 BC
3. 3000 BC
4. 50 AC

This is pottery from the ....

1. Funnel Beaker Culture
2. hunter-gatherers
3. Middle East
4. Clay Culture

Last question:In Latin America the first crops were ...

1. wheat
2. rice
3. maize
4. alpacas

Hunter-gatherers

Farmers

Name the differences between the life-style of hunters and farmers?