1.3 Early Farmers

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1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers

1.3 Early Farmers

What is this lesson about?

When the last Ice Age was over, prehistoric people in the Middle East started to become farmers. They no longer moved around but lived in one place. Here they could grow crops and keep animals. Pottery was invented, to store things.

What you can do after this lesson

• explain when and why first agriculture began in the near east
  
• explain how the first farmers discovered how to grow their own crops
  
• explain the meaning of domestication
  
• explain how the first farmers lived
  

Word Duty

Ice Age: periods in the past when areas of the world were covered by ice and it was very cold

Agriculture: a way of living where people grow their own crops and keep animals

Fertile Crescent: area around the rivers Tigris, Euphrates and Nile

Agricultural revolution: farming was introduced, a completely new way of living in prehistory

Domestication: tame animals for your own use

Pottery: an invention of farmers to store products

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

KEY WORDS

Write down the correct definition of both words:

1. change:

2. continuity:

What is a different word for agriculture?

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
1. prehistoric people have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years

This is an example of:

1. change
2. continuity

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
2. There have been several ice ages in the past.

This is an example of:

1. change
2. continuity

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
3. hunter-gatherers became farmers during prehistory.


This is an example of:

1. change
2. continuity

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
4. For the last 10,000 years, there were no ice ages.

This is an example of:

1. change
2. continuity

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.

fertile

villages

grain

population

Nile

crescent moon

10,000

The domestication of pigs began 80,000 years ago.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

The first animals to be domesticated were goats and sheep.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

Animals were selected for their useful characteristics.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

It took hundreds of years before the animals were tame.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

Pigs were selected for the amount of flesh they had.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

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

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)

Pottery was used for storage. Can you name three things the early farmers would have stored in this new invention?

Name at least three things you need to make pottery.

Look at source 1.23 in Agriculture in our region (Theory F). Write down at least three characteristics of the first farmers you can see in this drawing.

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

so the people 

in the Fertile Crescent  

The population 

needed to find 

new farm land 

was growing,  

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

around 5300 BC 

appeared  

The first farmers   

in our region 

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

had pottery 

shaped like a funnel

that was  

The builders   

of the Hunebedden  

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

to decorate  

used straight lines 

Linear Pottery culture  

their pottery

  People from the   

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

congratulations