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