1.2 The first farmers

1. Hunters and Farmers 
1.2 The first farmers 

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1. Hunters and Farmers 
1.2 The first farmers 

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

  1. You can describe what the agricultural revolution involved.
  2. You can give some possible explanations for the switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture.
  3. You can explain what economic, social and cultural changes resulted from the agricultural revolution.
Learning objectives 

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Word Duty
§1.2 The first farmers Keywords 

arable farming
Growing crops such as grains and vegetables.

livestock farming
Keeping or breeding animals as a means of making a living.

agriculture
A way of living from arable farming and keeping animals.

agricultural revolution

The switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture as the main way of life.

economy
Everything to do with how people make a living and how the results of their work are divided among them.




KEY WORDS

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Arable farming
9000 BC.
Growing your own crops 

  1. putting cereal grains in soil 
  2. watering the crops 
  3. harvesting the crops 

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Arable farming and livestock farming are known as agriculture 
Livestockfarming

Keeping animals and taming them.
The switch from hunting to farming had big consequences. 
So big that we call this change the argicultural revolution 

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

The land between two rivers

  • Uruk (modern-day Iraq) was once a big city with thousands of people, nowadays it is lost in the desert.
  • the first inhabitants were farmers 
  • To grow crops you need fertile soil and water
  • They build their city between the rivers the Euphrates and the Tigris and it was later named: Mesopotamia > 'The land between two rivers'.
 
 

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Causes of the agricultural revolution 
Argricultural revolution 
took thousands of years

  1. 10.000 BC. Climate change: The weather got better 
  2. Expermenting 
  3. Staying alive  

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Big consequences 
  1. Permanent houses 
  2. More food = economy 
  3. Increased social differences 
  4. Culture change ( rich people) 
  5. Poor Health ( Animals , less varied diet, failling harvest)  

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Put the events in the correct chronological order
Plant the seeds of grain.
Make small fields for the grain to grow.
Collect grain seeds in the wild.
Now you grow your own grain crops.
Save some grain seeds for the next year.

Slide 9 - Sleepvraag

Explain the joke, and use the word "domestication"
in your answer.

Slide 10 - Open vraag

Farmers
Hunter-Gatherers
moving from place to place
finding grain, fruit and vegetables
hunting animals and fishing
small groups
only few possessions that can be carried
Farming was a big change in the way prehistoric man lived. So what changed exactly?
Drag each change  to the correct place in the table.

large groups
pottery
domesticating animals
growing your own crops
living in one place
(= settling)

Slide 11 - Sleepvraag

Write down one question about something from this lesson that you find difficult.

Slide 12 - Open vraag

Slide 13 - Video