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Title: First Farmers


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First Farmers
  • Madnick/Global History 9

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First Farmers The Basics
  • 12,000 YA, humans changed the way they got food
  • They changed from hunting/gathering to farming
  • Most humans settled in farming villages, rather
    than being nomadic
  • This change was caused by global warming-
  • Warmer temps and more water on Earth

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First Farmers The Basics
  • 12,000 YA, global warming caused warmer
  • temps. and more water on Earth
  • Humans changed the way they got food
  • They changed from hunting/gathering to farming
  • They settled in farming villages, rather than
    being nomadic

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First Farmers The Basics
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First Farmers The Basics
  • The change from hunting and gathering to farming
  • is called the
  • Agricultural Revolution
  • Neolithic Revolution

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First Farmers The Basics
  • The change from hunting and gathering to farming
  • is called the

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First Farmers Key Terms
FARMING
  • Agriculture
  • Human control of the environment in order to
    produce food
  • Domestication
  • Human control of plants and animals
  • Sedentary
  • Living in one place

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First Farmers Key Terms
  • Agriculture
  • Domestication
  • Sedentary

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • people lived in farming villages v. being
    nomadic
  • Job specialization
  • people developed specific skills
  • like pottery, weaving, building,
  • while others farmed

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Job specialization

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Population growth
  • -better food supply caused higher birth rate
  • -healthier women had more babies
  • Changing role of women
  • stayed at home with more children

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Population growth
  • Changing role of women

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Belief systems
  • -Animism continued
  • -priests performed religious ceremonies
  • -became a powerful social class
  • Social/political systems
  • more laws and judges needed
  • to keep order in larger populations


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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Belief systems
  • Social/political systems

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Build up of garbage and human waste
  • Disease diffusion
  • spread of measles, smallpox, flu as people
    lived closer together
  • Environmental damage
  • farming caused deforestation and
  • soil erosion

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First Farmers Life Ways
  • Build up of garbage and human waste
  • Disease diffusion
  • Environmental damage
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