We can break the question down to more speciýc questions and answer these: 1. What kind of development was this? SOURCES1 and 2 provide evidence for a change from hunter– gatherer societies to societies based on farming. 2. What was the situation before the change? Before the New Stone Age, which saw the development of farming, all peoples provided for their needs by hunting and gathering, like the hunter depicted in SOURCE1 . 3. How did the change occur? The change ýrst came about around 9000 BCE, when people in the Fertile Crescent began growing crops and herding sheep and goats. As others saw advantages in adopting these new ways, the development spread to other societies, such as the ancient Egyptians, shown in SOURCE2 . 4. What was different after the change? People were able to produce food in smaller areas than were needed by hunter–gatherers so they could settle in permanent dwellings. They could also produce a surplus so that some people could specialise in work other than food production. Large, settled societies saw the need for laws and powerful rulers. The surpluses the people produced could support a ruling class, who saw hunting as a form of sport or recreation, as depicted in SOURCE3 , rather than as a necessity, as in SOURCE1 . 1.6.3 Letmedo it Complete the following activities to practise this skill. 1.6 SkillBuilder activity 1. Apply the following questions to SOURCES4 and 5 to identify broad patterns of change in another aspect of life in ancient times. General question: For what broad patterns of change do SOURCES4 and 5 provide evidence? More speciýc questions: a. What kind of development was this? b. What was the situation, as shown in SOURCE4 , before the change? c. How did the change occur? d. What was different, as shown in SOURCE5 , after the change?
SOURCE4 Creevykeel Megalithic Tomb was constructed in Ireland around 3000 BCE by New Stone Age people. This was around the same time that structures such as Stonehenge and other stone circles, temples and tombs were built in England. Because everything else built by these peoples was made of wood and other vegetable matter, such giant stone monuments, called megaliths, are the only built traces they left behind.
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