1.1 IT'S ABOUT TIME + 1.2THE FIRST HUMANS

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• Leerjaar 1

Chapter Hunter and farmers

Today's lesson=

• Read 1.1 (page 8-9-10)
• Listening exercise 1.1
• Instruction par 1.1
• Time to work

Written source

Unwritten source

Measuring Time

People have lived on Earth for millions of years. We divide this long period of time into blocks. Prehistory is the first one. 

Prehistory 

Prehistory is the period in the past before people could write. 

People began to write at different times in different parts of the world. So prehistory ended earlier in some places than others. In Egypt it was about 5,000 years ago. In the Netherlands it was about 2,000 years ago. 

Different calendars 

Such as.......

Different ways of organising time

We also talk about exact periods of time. The ones we most often use are:

• millennium - a thousand years
  
• century       - a hundred years
  
• decade        - ten years
  

What century is it?

We need to be careful when talking about centuries. 

The sixteenth century is not all the years beginning with 16- . It is 1500-1599. 

This is because the first century AD ends in AD 99. The years from AD 100-199 are the second century AD, and so on. 

The years BC work in the same way.

Organising History

When you are studying history, you need to know why something happened, but of course also when something happened. A way of organising time is periodisation. History is split into smaller parts, in so-called periods. 

An example of periodisation is the way time is organised in Dutch history education: in ten periods, called the ten ages. In Dutch this means “de tien tijdvakken”. The name of each age is based on characteristics of that age. The age of prehistory is called the age of hunters and farmers, while the age when Columbus lived is called the age of discoverers and reformers. The age we live in is called the age of the television and computer. Every age also has a small logo to help you recognise it.

This is the symbol for "The Age of Hunters and Farmers". We also know this period as Prehistory.

We don't know exactly when this period started. But it ended around 3000 BC.

This is the symbol for "The Age of Greeks and Romans". We also know this period as Antiquity (= Oudheid).

This period lasted from around 3000 BC until 500 AD

This is the symbol for "The Age of Monks and Knights". We also know this period as the Early Middle Ages.

This period lasted from around 500 AD until 1000 AD

This is the symbol for "The Age of Cities and States". We also know this period as the Late Middle Ages.

This period lasted from around 1000 AD until 1500 AD

This is the symbol for "The Age of Discoverers and Reformers".

This period lasted from around 1500 until 1600.

The Age of Discoverers and Reformers belongs to the Early Modern Age, which lasted until 1800

This is the symbol for "The Age of Regents and Monarchs".

This period lasted from around 1600 until 1700.

The Age of Regents and Monarchs also belongs to the Early Modern Age, which lasted until 1800

This is the symbol for "The Age of Wigs and Revolutions".

This period lasted from around 1700 until 1800.

The Age of Wigs and Revolutions also belongs to the Early Modern Age, which lasted until 1800

This is the symbol for "The Age of Citizens and Steam Engines".

This period lasted from around 1800 until 1900.

The Age of Citizens and Steam Engines  belongs to the Late Modern Period , which lasted until 1945.

This is the symbol for "The Age of World Wars".

This period lasted from around 1900 until 1950.

The Age of World Wars  also belongs to the Late Modern Period , which lasted until the end of World War II (1945).

This is the symbol for "The Age of Television and Computer".

This period lasted from around 1950 until now.

The Age of Television and Computer belongs to the Contemporary History, which is the history that living people can still remember. 

It covers the period after the end of World War II (1945)

Picture of a Samurai

Painting found in a cave

King Xerxes I of Persia

Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

A knight

A tank

Queen Marie Antoinette

Actress Maggie Smith (from Harry Potter)

Michiel de Ruyter

Introduction

Trijntje was a hunter-gatherer. She lived  around 9000 BC. Archaeologists found her skeleton in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland. After her death she was buried. Burials are an important aspect of human life. So how did people in prehistory bury their dead?

1.2 The first humans

Evolution or creation narrative?

Discuss: What is the Evolution Theory.

The first humans

Where did the first humans come from?
Is there a definitive answer? 

Or a bit of both?

Time to work

• Read 1.2 (write down difficult words in your PIF)
• Make 1.2 (3-4-8-10)

1. Fossils

2. Scientists

3. Creation narrative

4. Theory of evolution

5. Prehistory

6. Decade

7. Archaeologist

8. Tools

9. Out of Africa theory

A. Period of ten years

B. Unwritten sources

C. Excavation

D. Darwin

E. Adam and Eve

F. Remains of organisms

G. Historian

H. Lucy

I. Arrow

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