Paragraph 1.4 - The first farmers -2023

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Paragraph 1.4 - The first farmers

At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…

• know more about the Venus of Willendorf 
• tell to tell about the eldest unsolved murder of Europe
•  how people started farming
• name the two kinds of farming/agriculture we have

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Was Otzi a hunter/gatherer or a farmer? 

• Read 'Otzi: a frozen mummy' and 'When and how did people start farming?' (TB 18) 
• Make exercise 3 and 4 (WB 23-4) 

Why is Otzi's axe proof that he was a farmer or had contact with farmers?

1. An axe is only used by farmers for creating fields
2. Copper is a metal, therefor the axe can only be made by farmers

Change and continuity

• Read together 'SKILL 1.4 and 1.5' (WB 24) 
• Read 'Starting to keep animals', 'The start agriculture; a worldwide revolution' 'Farming brought about a new way of life' (TB 19) 

Hunter-gatherers

First farmers 

Living in houses (living in one spot)

Pottery

Few possessions 

Small groups

Raising animals

Living in a tent/cave

growing your own crops

Bigger groups

Hunting animals and gathering

Nomads/moving around

People sometimes still hunted animals for meat

1. Change
2. Continuity

The population grew, so groups became bigger

1. Change
2. Contintuity

Farmers started to grow their own crops

1. Change
2. Continuity

The first domesticated animals still looked a lot like the ones living in the wild

1. Change
2. Continuity

It was no longer necessary to follow herds of animals

1. Change
2. Continuity

For the first few millions, people in prehistory lived like

It was not until the year  10,000

that argiculture was discovered. 

Because of that discovery , many things

, in a relative 

period of time, making it a 

Complete the text

changed

revolution. 

short 

hunter-gatherers

BC

AD

continuited

long

Around the neighborhood

Read 'Agriculture in our region' (TB 20)

Make exercise 8 (WB 27)

The first murder case in Europe

• Read together 'What happened to Otzi?' (TB 20)
• Make exercise 9  (WB 28)

Using a scaffold

• Read exercise 9 c again
• The teacher will ask a few of you to defend your answer using the examples of 9c and your arguments of exercise 9 b

Homework

1. Make exercise 10 (WB 29) but ONLY for the Essence (TB 20) 

2. Go to 'SOM' --> 'Leermiddelen' and find 'Bricks second edition'

Find 'Mircohistory 1.2 'Banished''

Listen while reading the story and make the exercises

P.S.: This is something new of the book. Let me know if you found it interesting. 

P.S.S.: text B might be a bit difficult. DON'T PANIC! We will read together next lesson