Social StudiesSocial Studies

By: Allison and JaredBy: Allison and Jared

Hunters and GatherersHunters and Gatherers• The men were the hunters.

• The women were the gatherers.

• They hunted wooly rhinos, mastodons, bison, deer, and mammoths.

• They gathered roots, berries, nuts, seeds, and fruits.

• All the things they gathered and hunted they used for resources.

• They used a atlatl to through the spears to kill some of the resources.

Farmers and HerdersFarmers and Herders• They domesticated animals to provide resources.• The women were the first people to domesticate plant• Farming lead to the building of permanent homes

gathered together in a village.• The earliest crops were wheat and wild barley.• They used to prepare soil for planting-

– they cleared the trees– they burned them– they mixed the ash with the soil to fertilize it.

• We don’t use it because it causes pollution.• They had problems like clear land, fights over land, and

threats to crops : insects, plant • diseases, flooding, and drought.

Jericho, Catal Huyuk, and UrJericho, Catal Huyuk, and Ur• Jericho, Catal Huyuk, and Ur were early farming

villages that were developed• Jericho, Catal Huyuk, and Ur traded with each

other.• They all were complex societies, because they

all had a food source.• All the villages had homes for people to stay in.• All the towns had there own religion.

Short SummaryShort Summary

• We learned that, the ziggurat and Ur, it was a complex society.

• All the cities had their own religion.

• The farmers and herders were the first to domesticate pigs, sheep.

• Ur has to enter their house through the roof.