Transcript Advantages and Disadvantages

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 Good
Disadvantage: 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.