Prehistory - 3

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Today's planning

What do you remember?

Homework check

New info 1.3

Repetition

How do you call people without a permanent residence?

Repetition

How did hunter-gatherers get their food?

Repetition

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

Homework check

Read paragraph 1.2 and make assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,

1.3 Early Farmers

Main questions:

• When and where did hunter-gatherers invent farming?

• How did the farmers get their food?

• How did the first farmers live together?

1.3 Early Farmers

When and where did hunter-gatherers invent farming?

Ice Age

Around 10.000 BC the climate changed >> warmer

Middle East; people started planting seeds in fertile soil

>> Agriculture

1.3 Early Farmers

How did they get their food?

The fertile crescent

Big rivers overflow the shores

When the water retreats

Fertile soil is left

Easy to grow crops and harvest them

1.3 Living in villages

How did the farmers live together?

Villages

Bigger groups

Specialise in other jobs

Agricultural surplus >> trade

Taming animals >> Domestication

Homework for this week

Read paragraph 1.3 

and make assignments 1, 2, 5, 7, 8