Why farming changed everything: villages, surplus and specialists
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
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Two ways of life
Way of life Food Homes Extra food Hunter-gatherers ? camps, moved often little stored Early farmers crops they planted and animals they raised villages where they stayed a surplus stored for later The cell marked ? is blank.
Esme's chart has a blank under Food for hunter-gatherers. What fills it?
- Wild foods gathered from the land
- Crops they planted in their fields
- Fish farms
- Food bought in shops
Jun's chart has a blank under Extra food for early farmers. What fills it?
- A surplus stored for later
- Little or nothing stored for later
- Food thrown away each day
- Food from a supermarket
Two ways of life
Way of life Food Homes Extra food Hunter-gatherers wild foods gathered from the land camps, moved often little stored Early farmers crops they planted and animals they raised villages where they stayed a surplus stored for later Kira reads the word surplus. What does it mean for a farmer?
- A kind of wheat
- The food a family grows in a whole year
- Extra food beyond what is needed now
- Food found in the wild
Luz reads that farmers domesticated wheat and goats. What does domesticate mean?
- To gather wild foods on long trips
- To build a stone wall
- To store extra grain
- To raise plants or animals to live with people
Milo reads about the Fertile Crescent. What is it?
- A Roman road
- A kind of early boat
- A dry desert far away in South America
- A curved band of land in Southwest Asia
Noah reads about the first crops farmed in the Fertile Crescent. Which were among them?
- Cocoa and coffee
- Emmer wheat, einkorn wheat and barley
- Corn, beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes
- Rice and tea
One of the first animals people domesticated was first kept in Iran about 10,000 years ago. Which one, Pia asks?
- Kangaroos
- Goats
- Lions
- Whales
Why did early farmers stay in one place, Tala asks?
- To look after fields and stored crops
- To follow wild herds
- Because living in villages forced them to farm
- Because they had no tools
With a food surplus, what could some people do, Zee asks?
- Stop eating in winter
- Grow less food than before
- Spend time on other jobs, such as making tools
- Go back to following wild herds across the land
How did a surplus help trade begin, Ari asks?
- A surplus meant there was no food left over
- Extra goods could be swapped with others
- Trade made the crops grow
- Hunters had no need to eat