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• 1.3 Life as a farmer tm 1.5 Egyptians live with death

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• Why do people talk of the agricultural revolution?

  Although the changeocer from hunting- gathering to agriculture was a gradual process that lasted for thousands of years, the impact was profound: 1. People started to settle permanently in one place; 2. People started building solid dwellings could last for generationsl; 3. The tools changed from hunting weapons to ploughs and grindstones.

• When and where did the agricultural revolution start?

  Around 10.000 BC in the Fertile Crescent that covers an area that now lies in Iran, Iraq, and Syria. This age is called the Late Stone Age  or Neoltihic Age.

• How did Agriculture spread from Iran etc towards Europe?

  Along the Mediterrenean Sea and than through the North of Europe.

• When and where settled the first farmers to the Netherlands?

  Around 5.300 BC. The felled forests in South Limburg to make space for fieldsl

• What where the farmhouses built off and how was its structure?

  Vertical poles that where placed in rows. Between the rows walls where made by weaving twigs and spreading them with clay. A farm consisted of three parts: for living, for storing food and for animals or workplace.

• What is linear pottery culture?

  Archeologists found in the graves of important farmers pottery painted with spots, stripes amd lines ( linear painting).

• What gifts are found in dolmens?

  Pots, jewellery, arrows and sometimes an axe.

• When there were no longer hunter- gatherers in the Netherlands?

  Around 3000 BC.

• Name three manners that helped with the construction of the dolmens?

  Rolling tree trunks, oxes, levers.

• How did cities develop in Mesopotamia?

  After the end of the Ice age the climate became dryer. People started to live near rivers, made canals and irrigated the ( artificially watering the plants when you cannot always rely on the rain to wet your crop). Mesopotamia is the area between the rivers Euphrate and Tigris; a lot of people lived there.  Excess harvests prompted population growth. Enough people on the fields, others specialised in making cloths or tools or building.