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Grade 5 History Term 2 Summary

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About this resource

Help your Grade 5 learner understand and revise Term 2 History with this comprehensive CAPS-aligned study summary focusing on The First Farmers in Southern Africa.

The summary covers:

  • When, where and why the first farmers settled
  • Bantu-speaking farmers
  • The Iron Age
  • Slash-and-burn farming and overgrazing
  • Interaction with the Khoikhoi and San
  • Bartering and trade
  • Life in Iron Age villages and chiefdoms
  • Roles of men, women and children
  • Crops and livestock
  • Subsistence farming
  • The importance of cattle
  • Mafisa and lobola
  • Iron and copper tools
  • Smelting
  • Pottery and the Lydenburg Heads
  • Religion, ancestors and traditional healers
  • Hunting and trade

CAPS-Aligned | 25 Pages | Study Notes | Practice Questions & Answers | Quick Exam Revision | PDF Format

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