2.2 Nature fire culture

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers

2.2 Nature, fire, culture 

What you will learn in 

this lesson

• what are hunter-gatherers?
• what are sources?
• why are sources important to learn about prehistoric people?
• why did hunter-gatherers live in small groups?
• why did hunter-hatherers have only few belongings?
• how did hunter-gatherers adapt to the climate?

Word Duty

Cave paintings: paintings made in caves by prehistoric humans

Prehistory: time in history before people could read and write

Sources: remains from the past

Hunting-gathering: a way of living where people hunt animals and gather food like plants and berries to survive

Nomads: people who do not live in a fixed place

Link to WRTS wordlist for all the other difficult words: WRTS HISTORY

KEY WORDS

lesson 2.2: Hunter-gatherers

For thousands of years humans lived from hunting animals and gathering fruits and vegetables. This way of life is called: hunter-gathering.

Hunter-gatherers were nomads: they moved from place to place, following the animals they hunted.

They lived in small groups, between 20 - 30 people.

Jagers en Boeren

Regenten en Vorsten

Grieken en Romeinen

Monniken en Ridders

Steden en Staten

Ontdekkers en Hervormers

Pruiken en Revoluties

Burgers en Stoommachines

Wereldoorlogen

Televisie en Computers

sources (= bronnen)

• the people we study in history are all gone. They can no longer tell us what happened.
• So, how do we know what happened in the past?
• Answer: from the remains they left behind. 
• These remains are called SOURCES. 
• All the sources together make up the story of history.
• There are many different types of sources: 
• for instance: written and unwritten sources
• Examples of unwritten sources are:

written 

sources

unwritten sources

Drag the pictures to the correct place

sources are important because they give us:

1. water
2. information
3. solutions
4. a narrative

now, write down some examples of

unwritten sources

now, write down some examples of
written sources