Prehistory - 1.4 + 1.5

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Today's planning

What do you remember?

Homework check

New info 1.4

Repetition

How do you call people without a permanent residence?

Repetition

How did hunter-gatherers get their food?

Repetition

How do hunters & gatherers live together?

Repetition

Give two reasons why we know what we know about prehistory.

Homework check

Homework 1.2: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Homework 1.3: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

You can find the answers in Teams!

1.4 The first farmers

Main questions:

• When and how did hunter-gatherers invent farming?

• How did the farmers get their food?

• How did the first farmers live together?

1.4 The first farmers

When and where did hunter-gatherers invent farming?

Ice Age

climate change 10.000 BC   >> warmer & more fertile

Middle East; people planting seeds

>> Agriculture

1.4 The first farmers

When and where did hunter-gatherers invent farming?

Keeping animals 

Domesticating sheep, goats, pigs and chickens

Animal husbandry (veeteelt)

For meat, but also wool, milk and eggs

1.4 The first farmers

How did they get their food?

The fertile crescent

1. Big rivers overflow 

2.Wwater retreats

3. Fertile soil

4. Easy to grow crops 

1.4 The first farmers

How did the farmers live together?

Villages

Bigger groups

Specialise in other jobs

Agricultural surplus >> trade

Homework for this week

Read paragraph 1.4 and 

make assignments 2, 3, 5, 6, 7a, 8

Goal of this lesson

You'll learn about....

the religion of the hunter-gatherers and farmers.

Hunter-gatherers & nature gods

No writing > we don't know a lot 

Hunter-gatherers shared their possessions

social differences are small

Important people are; village elder, best hunter & shaman

Hunter-gatherers & nature gods

Shaman communicates with the spiritworld.

Animism

'religion in which natural places are believed to have spirits and are worshipped'

Social differences between farmers

Farmers had bigger social differences

Some had more possessions than others

Rich farmers had more power

>became leaders of their village

Burials 

Nomads burried their people on the place they died

Graves are simple

Gravegoods > Afterlife

Powerfull farmers were burried in stone tombs

monuments temples.

Homework

1.4 

make assignments 2, 3, 5, 6, 7a, 8

1.5

assignments 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10

Drawing assingment

Make groups of 2

1 person makes a drawing of a hunter & gatherer community

1 person makes a drawing of a farmers village.