Hunters became farmers

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1.3 Early Farmers

Why did people change from hunting and gathering to farming?

What are the differences in lifestyle?

What does the word prehistory mean?

1. The time before people could read and write
2. It's a different word for history
3. The period of hunters-gatherers
4. People who research history

Climate change

• In Europe there was an Ice Age
• But around 10,000 BC the earth started to warm up

Klimaatverandering

Ijstijd

Agriculture + The fertile crescent

• This region also warmed up

Agriculture + The fertile crescent

• This region also warmed up
• It also got a lot dryer > deserts started to form
• By accident people found out they could grow plants
• Growing your own food = not having to gather anymore

Desert = een woestijn

Agriculture + The fertile crescent

• This region also warmed up
• It also got a lot dryer > deserts started to form
• By accident people found out they could grow plants
• Growing your own food = not having to gather anymore
• Farming started in the fertile crescent  

Desert = een woestijn

Vruchtbare halve maan

Agriculture

Growing food from seeds

Domestication

Tam maken van dieren, zoals bijvoorbeeld schapen, koeien en geiten

Landbouw

It took thousands of years before it got to Europe

Difference in lifestyle

• People started to live in fixed places
• Therefore they could have more belongings
• The settlements grew larger

Discuss with your neighbour

Write down three differences

And three similarities

Why would we find more sources from the first farmers than the hunter-gatherers? What do you think?

First farmers in our lands

• Around 5300 years ago the first farmers settled in Limburg
• Different settlers came in and slowly the country was fully inhabited by farmers

What is domestication?