1. The First Farmers Video
Objective: To explain how the first farming communities started.

2. 1. Describe the weather and land at the beginning of the video.
It is cold and icy
there are few trees and animals for food

3. 2. These people are called
HUNTER-GATHERERS
What are hunter gatherers?
People who get food by hunting and collecting plants, fruits, and vegetables.

4. 3. What is life like for these people?
They travel all the time and are starving
They are “one meal away from starvation.”
What do we call people who travel and have no permanent home?
nomads

5. 4. What caused the land and climate to change?
The glaciers melted
Water made plants grow

6. MIDDLE EAST FERTILE CRESCENT
5. One of the best places for humans to live was an area in the called the
MIDDLE EAST
FERTILE CRESCENT

7. 6. The fertile crescent stretches from to
ISRAEL
IRAQ
What made the fertile crescent a
good place to live?
It had water and good soil for growing plants.

8. 7. How did life change for the hunter-gatherers?
There were a lot more plants and animals that could be used for food

9. 8. What did the hunter-gatherers discover that changed their lives?
A huge supply of grain
What do we use grain for?

10. 9. What artifacts did the archaeologists discover?
Headband with shell beads
Tool with flint blades w/wheat residue (remains)

11. 10. What problem caused life to change?
They had to carry the grain with them, so they decided to live near the grain

12. 11. How many people lived in the first villages?

13. Anything that ran, swam, crawled, or flew
12. What meats did they eat?
Anything that ran, swam, crawled, or flew

14. 13. What did they spend most of their time doing?
Making new tools or repairing old tools

15. 14. What were the first gardens?
The trash piles
How did trash piles become the first gardens?
The people threw out the seeds. The trash pile was full of wet rotting food.
This cause the seeds to sprout and soon vegetables and fruits were growing.

16. 15. How did these people change their environment to suit their needs?
They took their seed supply and planted some of it to grow more

17. 16. Name three ways the harvested wheat was used.
Food
Shelter
baskets

18. A natural Spring was Nearby which Provided fresh water
17. Why did the farmers choose this specific location (Zad 2) to settle?
A natural
Spring was
Nearby which
Provided fresh
water

19. The remains of burnt seeds
18. What did archaeologists find to prove that this was a farming community?
The remains of burnt seeds

20. Creating new types of barley by only planting the best seeds
19. The discovery of the larger barley seeds showed that these farmers were
Creating new types of barley by only planting the best seeds

21. 20. The farmers still relied on
hunting

22. 21. Why did they invent the bow and arrow?
To catch faster animals for meat
To hunt at a
distance for
safety

23. 22. Describe the houses in which these farmers lived.
Round
Mud and rock with grass roofs
Fireplace inside

24. 23. Why did they burn the roofs each year?
To kill the bugs

25. 24. Why is it now possible for families to be larger?
More food
More people to do work
They do not have to move (remember the nomads had to carry children so they only had 1-2 kids)

26. 25. How does this affect their lives?
They have to now continue
to grow more and more food
The older people teach the younger people.

27. 26. As the population grew, it became. necessary to be organized. This
26. As the population grew, it became necessary to be organized. This required
A LEADER

28. A system of laws to keep order in society.
27. What do you think will come next as people learn to live in larger groups?
A system of laws to keep order in society.