Beginners
Beginners
Who were the first farmers?
EARLY PEOPLE
MOSTLY LIVED in small groups. They moved around hunting animals and gathering
food from wild plants. Then, about 12,000 years ago, some people learned to
herd animals such as sheep and goats. Others learned to sow seeds. They started
growing crops. All these events took place at different times in different
parts of the world. The earliest farms were created by the people of the Middle
East around 15,000 years ago. But there were farms long ago in China, India and
Central America.
Ancient Egyptian farmers
The
development of farms led to the creation of the world's first great
civilizations including the Egyptian known for its pyramids. The farms were
along the River Nile. Which not only provided water, but brought silt during
floods to an area that would otherwise be a desert.
What were the first crops?
Tre fist
crops grown were wheat and barley. One of the oldest known variety of wheat
oldest is called emmer. Vegetables such as per were also grown on early forms.
How did farming change
peoples lives forever?
For the
first time, people did lot have to move around. they could settle in one place.
hey but the first villages followed by towns. At Jarmo in iraq, there ore the
remains or 24 mud huts where 150 people lived around 11,009 years ago
What new skills did people learn?
Some people
became skilled in things like building houses and food stores, weaving cloth
and making pots. they also learned how to Use metals like bronze in the Bronze
Age and iron in the Iron Age.
What were the first
inventions?
After
settling down, people began to make different Things to make life easier. They
learned how to make pots from clay around 9,000 years ago. At about the same time,
they learned how to grind grain into flour in shallow bowls called mortars using
club-like stone pestles.
How did they plant seeds?
In the
beginning, farmers planted seeds by dropping them in the holes made by Using a
stick. Later on, they turned Over the soil a bit and Carved out long furrows to
put the seeds in with a blade called a plough.
When was the wheel invented?
The early
wheels were probably solid discs of wood cut from tree trunks. Later, the axle
was invented-a rod that passed through a hole in the center of the wheel. By burning
the axle, the wheel could be turned. By about 5,200 years ago, solid wheels
made of short planks of wood bolted together were being Used in Mesopotamia in
the Middle East. Before the wheel was invented, people must have moved heavy
loads. Using tree trunks as rollers.
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