Objective: SWBAT identify disadvantages and advantages of

nomadic and early farming lifestyles (6.2.3)

Calisthenics (10-15 minutes): Finish your cartoons. Once you have finished,

answer the multiple choice questions in the back on your Notes from yesterday.

Homework: Make sure all of your early humans notes are complete. I will be doing a notebook check tomorrow.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantage: Something GoodDisadvantage: Something Bad

What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in nomadic and agricultural communities?

Advantages and disadvantages of Nomadic and Agricultural Communities

• Which community would be easiest to attack?

Advantages of which community: Agricultural or Nomadic?

• More food • If one area had a fire or flood, they could easily

move to another area.• People lived in larger groups, so they were able

to protect themselves from attackers• Specialized workers produced varied good• Permanent shelter• Living in small groups lowered their risk for

disease.• Reliable food supply

Disadvantages of which community: Agricultural or Nomadic?

• Unstable food supply• At risk of fire, disease, and flood destroying

the community and their crops• Faced the dangers of hunting, gathering, and

migrating to new places

Advantages of agricultural communities

Advantages• More food • People lived in larger

groups, so they were able to protect themselves from attackers

• Specialized workers produced varied good

• Permanent shelter• Reliable food supply

Disadvantages• At risk of fire, disease, and

flood destroying the community and their crops.

Nomadic Communities

Advantages• If one area had a fire or

flood, they could easily move to another area.

• Living in small groups lowered their risk for disease.

Disadvantages• Unstable food supply• Faced the dangers of

hunting, gathering, and migrating to new places

Practice!!• Quia Activities:

1. Early Communities

1) Which of the following is an advantage of living in a nomadic community?A. Specialized workers give community members the opportunity to barter.B. The community can stay in one place.C. If a natural disaster occurs, the community can easily move to another area.D. The do not grow their own food.

2) Which of the following is an advantage of living in a farming community?

A. They can easily move when there is a natural disaster.B. They have a reliable and stable source of food.C. They can move from place to place.D. They are more vulnerable to attack.

3) Around 700,000 B.C. the first human beings started moving into Europe from Africa. For

many years these people followed herds of animals as they roamed around Europe. In the summer the herds were able to move further north than during the icy winter. People rarely traveled further north than the woods of Belgium until after the last ice age, when clothes afforded them with adequate warmth and protection to bear the cold.

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter111.html

Which statement best explains why this population constantly migrated?A. They were escaping war in Africa. B. They were looking for food in the north. C. They lived near natural disasters. D. They lived a nomadic lifestyle.