Paragraph 1.3 - Early farmers -2022

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Paragraph 1.3 - Early farmers 

At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…

• what continuity and change (C&C) are in History
• recognize C&C
• what French pastery has to do with growing grain
• name at least five characteristics of the early farmers

• Read together 'Climate change' (TB 14)

What are we going to talk about? 

Change and continuity

• Read together '2 Change and continuity' (TB 150) 
• Pair: make exercise 2 (WB 15) 

Read together: 'Hunter -gatherers become farmers' (TB15)

Plant the seeds of grain

Save some grain seeds for the next year

Collect grain seeds in the wild

Make small fields for the grain to grow

Now you grow your own grain crops

What is this called?

1. Full moon
2. Half moon
3. Crescent moon
4. Red moon

Croissant/crescent

Together ‘The Fertile Crescent’ (TB 15)

A. Around                             years ago, the last ice age ended.

B. People in the Middle East began to live in one place. Near the rivers Tigris, Euphrates and                .

C. This region is called the                         Crescent, because it is shaped like a                                             .

D. The people here collected seeds of                     that grew in the wild, like wheat or barley.There was plenty of food for these people.   

E. So the                           started to grow. Small settlements were formed.

G. Later these became                         where sometimes up to 200 people lived.

Fertile

grain

10,000

population

Nile

crescent moon

villages

Beeeeehhh!!!!

Read together 'Breeding animals' (TB 15)

The domestication of pigs began 80,000 years ago.

1. True
2. False

The animals to be domesticated were goats and sheep

1. True
2. False

Animals were selected for their useful characteristics

1. True
2. False

It took hundreds of years before the animals were tame

1. True
2. False

Pigs were selected for the amount of flesh they had.

1. True
2. False

Hunter-gatherers

First farmers 

Living in houses (living in one spot)

Pottery

Few possessions 

Small groups

Raising animals

Living in a tent/cave

growing your own crops

Bigger groups

Hunting animals and gathering

Nomads/moving around

People sometimes still hunted animals for meat

1. Change
2. Continuity

The population grew, so groups became bigger

1. Change
2. Contintuity

Farmers started to grow their own crops

1. Change
2. Continuity

The first domesticated animals still looked a lot like the ones living in the wild

1. Change
2. Continuity

It was no longer necessary to follow herds of animals

1. Change
2. Continuity

For the first few millions, people in prehistory lived like

It was not until the year  10,000

that argiculture was discovered. 

Because of that discovery , many things

, in a relative 

period of time, making it a 

Complete the text

changed

revolution. 

short 

hunter-gatherers

BC

AD

continuited

long

Homework

Read ‘Agriculture in our region’ (TB 15-6)

Make exercises 7, 9, and 10 (WB 17-8)