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First farmers in southern Africa - Topic 6 Flashcards

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1
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How long ago did people from East Africa start to settle as farmers in South Africa?

A

1700 years ago

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Why did the farmers move to the East coast of SA and later on to the biggest part of SA?

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They needed Summer rainfall for their crops to grow

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3
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From which modern countries did the first farmers come?

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Nigeria and Cameroon

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4
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What could the first farmers do?

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  • Keep animals
  • Grow crops
  • Make tools from iron
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5
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True or false: Herders and Hunter-gatherers sometimes joined the farming groups

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True

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6
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What was the most important thing in the farmers’ way of life?

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Land (which the chief gave you) to plant crops and graze cattle

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7
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What did Hunter-gatherers give farmers in exchange for cattle?

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They performed rain ceremonies (calling on the ancestors to send rain) for the crops to grow

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8
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What evidence do we find that herders traded with farmers

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Sea shells, bone arrowheads and ostrich shell beads in farming sites

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What did the Khoikhoi herders get from the farmers in trade?

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Iron tools

Copper

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10
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What did Archaeologists find at a place like Molokwane that tell us how the First Farmers lived?

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  • Farmers’ houses floors
  • Grain storage places
  • Stones for grinding grain
  • Pottery
  • Iron tools
  • Places where iron tools were made
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What were the first crops that were grown in southern Africa?

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Sorghum

Millet

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12
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When did the African farmers begin growing maize?

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When the Europeans came to southern Africa

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13
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European travellers drew pictures of the way the first farmers lived

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It is a fact!!

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14
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What did the cat say when he lost all his money ?

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Now I’m paw …

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15
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What things did the women do in the farming villages?

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  • Work in the fields
  • Fetch water
  • Make music
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What things did the men do in the farming villages?

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  • Look after cattle
  • Smelting
  • Fishing
  • Making music
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17
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When farming people help each other when they worked on the chief’s field (by giving new farmers seed or lending them cows or giving someone food) this is called …?

A

Co-operation (it is a culture of co-operation)

18
Q

How did the chiefs in the farming villages grow more powerful?

A

By getting more seed and cattle with which he could get more wives and children to work on the fields and then get more crops he could grow and store.

19
Q

Cattle were very important! What was cattle used for?

A
  • A man could get wives
  • Pay fines
  • Slaughter them for the ancestors’ happiness
20
Q

For the farmers to break up hard ground, harvest crops and mke weapons for hunting and defense they needed what?

A

Iron tools

21
Q

Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon? (Think carefully now)

A

Because she will Let it go (hehe)

22
Q

Name the five steps of metal working (think of the booklet you made)

A
  1. Rocks with iron in smelted in a hot fire
  2. A bellow (leather bag) used to blow air onto the fire for super hotness
  3. Fire melted iron out of the rocks (collected when cold)
  4. Cold iron heated up and made into a lump
  5. Lump was then beaten into desired shape when still hot.
23
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True or false: The men made the pottery

A

False: The women made pottery things from clay

24
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What special pottery things were made that were found at Lydenburg?

A

The Lydenburg Heads

25
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What were the Lydenburg heads?

A

Pottery masks (some were shaped like animals) that were worn over the head for unknown special ceremonies - maybe they were symbols of strength.

26
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What kinds of trade went on between farmers?

A
  • Iron tools for grain or cattle

- Gold and ivory for bead and cotton

27
Q

How did the farmers catch the elephants for their ivory tusks?

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They dug holes and drove the elephants into the pit traps.

28
Q

What is the person called that sick people went to for the medicine made from healing plants in the bush?

A

A herbalist

29
Q

What plant was used to treat wounds and stomach problems?

A

Aloe ferox

30
Q

What plant was used to treat fever and malaria?

A

Devil’s claw

31
Q

Why did the herbalists sometimes burn Imphepo?

A

To remind people that the ancestors were present and could also heal them

32
Q

What new skills and ideas did the new farmers (that came from West Africa) bring to the east of southern Africa?

A
  • Crop cultivation
  • Metal tools
  • Bantu languages
  • Village life
33
Q

Which tools made tending the field easier?

A

The hoe

The ox-plough

34
Q

What happened when the european settlers introduced the farmers to the ox-plough?

A

The women’s position in society weakened (they were not allowed to work with oxen so the men had to do it and so took over their traditional job)

35
Q

What do we know of the cattle of the farmers that is different to the Khoikhoi?

A 
Farmers = Cattle belonged to an individual
Khoikhoi = Cattle belonged to the group
36
Q

Name all the uses of cattle

A
  • Symbol of power and wealth
  • Milk
  • Meat
  • Skin for clothes
  • Horns for containers
  • Dropping for fuel for the fires
  • Droppings used for plasterng walls and floors
  • Used as form of money to pay fines or lobola (bride price)
37
Q

Give 7 reasons why the Western African farmers migrated to the east of Southern Africa.

A
  1. Better climatic conditions than the Sahara Desert
  2. Drought and famine
  3. A search for fertile soil (nutrient rich and moist)
  4. Better rainfall
  5. Better grazing land
  6. Better variety of crops
  7. To escape war and unrest
38
Q

Study the workbook sheet where Maize vs Millet and Sorghum are compared

A

I hope you did :)

39
Q

Study the workbook sheet where the Climate, Rainfall, Soil and Kind of land conditions are discussed for A. Crops and B. Catlle

A

Did you do it?

40
Q

Why did the picture go to jail?

A

Because it was framed (hehe)

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