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6th grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 10

First Farmers

From hunting to farming villages

What your child practices

The long story of early humans, how farming began about 12,000 years ago, domestication, food surpluses, and how settling down led to specialized jobs and the first cities.

California Content Standards learning standard: 6.1.1; 6.1.3 · hunter-gatherer societies and the move to farming

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put these events from the human story in order, earliest first.

    • 🎨People paint animals on cave walls
    • 🔥Early humans learn to control fire
    • 🧍Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa
    • 🏙️The first cities grow in Mesopotamia

  2. Question 2

    Before farming began, how did people get their food?

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    • By trading with cities
    • By buying it at markets
    • By hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants
    • By growing wheat in large fields

  3. Question 3

    Why is the change to farming sometimes called the Agricultural (or Neolithic) Revolution?

    • It was a war between farmers and hunters
    • It happened in a single year
    • It completely changed how people lived, leading to villages, towns and new jobs
    • It ended the use of stone tools overnight

  4. Question 4

    Which crop was one of the first to be farmed in Southwest Asia's Fertile Crescent?

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    • cacao
    • potatoes
    • maize (corn)
    • wheat

  5. Question 5

    Which tool helped early farmers break up and turn the soil?

    • the compass
    • the abacus
    • the sundial
    • the plow

  6. Question 6

    What was the Fertile Crescent?

    • A desert in northern Africa
    • A curve of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, from Mesopotamia to the eastern Mediterranean
    • A mountain range in China
    • An island in the Pacific Ocean

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