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 wild foods gathered from the land camps, moved often little stored Early farmers crops they planted and animals they raised ? a surplus stored for later The cell marked ? is blank.
Bo's chart has a blank under Homes for early farmers. What fills it?
- Tall stone towers
- Villages where they stayed
- Camps they packed up and moved often
- Boats on the river
Esme's chart has a blank under Food for hunter-gatherers. What fills it?
- Fish farms
- Food bought in shops
- Wild foods gathered from the land
- Crops they planted in their fields
Jun's chart has a blank under Extra food for early farmers. What fills it?
- Food thrown away each day
- Food from a supermarket
- A surplus stored for later
- Little or nothing stored for later
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 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?
- Rice and tea
- Corn, beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes
- Emmer wheat, einkorn wheat and barley
- Cocoa and coffee
One of the first animals people domesticated was first kept in Iran about 10,000 years ago. Which one, Pia asks?
- Kangaroos
- Lions
- Whales
- Goats
Flax was one of the first crops of the Fertile Crescent. What did people use flax for, Ren asks?
- Flour for bread
- Sugar for sweets
- Fibers for linen cloth
- Food for wild lions
With a food surplus, what could some people do, Zee asks?
- Stop eating in winter
- Spend time on other jobs, such as making tools
- Grow less food than before
- Go back to following wild herds across the land
How did a surplus help trade begin, Ari asks?
- Hunters had no need to eat
- Trade made the crops grow
- A surplus meant there was no food left over
- Extra goods could be swapped with others
