“Food production led to the advancements of many people around the world. The author describes food production as the domestication of animals and deriving plants for the benefits for the human use. Due to food production, populations also started to grow. People were using increased crops to make money, cows for their milk, and other animals for transportation.”…
Chapter 6: Diamond discusses why human agriculture was vital human societies. He explains how the decrease in hunting gathering made humans turn to more animal domestication, plant agriculture, ect. in around 8500 BC. This allowed easier food access and profit to sustain human societies more efficiently.…
1. John Green begins by discussing one of the most obvious consequences of agriculture…what is it and what are the most immediate consequences for those societies?…
There is a call for the ongoing advancement of agricultural techniques. This, the affirmative side agrees upon. However, in order to do so, the current practices must be looked at from a critical standpoint and flaws must be recognized. Presently, standards only observe short-term returns and often ignore the superseding impact felt globally. Throughout the affirmative’s case, certain aspects of modern agriculture were portrayed as beneficial. Two main critiques that will flow throughout is the overall cost-benefit analysis was not taken into account and the level of implementation of the positive aspects.…
The temperature was rising and this provided longer growing seasons and drier land. Around 10,000 years ago, women scattered seeds near a campsite and returned the next season to find new crops growing. A large supply of grain helped to feed a bigger population. This became known as the Neolithic or agricultural revolution. When is population started to increase, hunter gather struggled to find a large amount of food in a short period of time. This is when farming started to gain popularity because it provided a steady source of food. One farming technique was slashing and burning. Groups would cut down trees or grasses and burn the field. The ashes acted as a fertilizer for the soil and more trees and grass began to grow. Another thing that humans learned was to domesticate animals. Hunters knowledge of wild animals helped with this. They tamed horses, dogs, goats, and pigs. As places began to grow, they spread out along the world and with this came more agriculture. People in present day Africa grew wheat, barley, and other crops while China discovered rice. In Mexico and Central America, the people there grew corn beans and squash while people in Peru grew tomatoes, sweet potatoes and white potatoes. The inventions of hoes, sickles and plow sticks made farming…
China and the Fertile Crescent both used domesticated large animals, cows and oxen, to help cultivate their crops. Mesoamerica did not have large animals so the work was done entirely by humans. The use of tools varied in the three regions, with tools in the Mesoamerica region being the less advanced. Large shells and a stick called a Coa were used for planting and cultivating. While in the Fertile Crescent and China regions, plows were used for tilling and sickles were used for harvesting the wheat, barley and millet from the fields. The plow in the Fertile Crescent dates back to 3,000…
Agriculture is made up of many factors like water, soil, or landscape. A civilization needs to know how to cultivate crops first off because there are many ways in which one can take a plant. Different tools can be used for different crops and that highlights the start of a civilization. Then comes hunting, which is unique to each culture since the land provides certain animals for food and it is up to the population to decide which animal is most preferred and should be hunted for the most. After farming and hunting animals, the civilization decides what foods are more preferable and next time they would go for those crops or animals. This brings the civilization to domesticate preferable animals and grow preferable crops. It is a mix of mother nature and the preference of the civilization.…
It’s important to note that cultivation of crops seems to have arisen independently over the course of millennia; using crops that naturally grew nearby—_______ in Southeast Asia, _____________ in Mexico, _____________ in the Andes, _____________ in the Fertile Crescent, _____________ in West Africa —people around the world began to abandon their foraging for agriculture.…
Farming and agriculture have always played a large role in American history and society. From the time the first settlers arrived in the New World from Europe, families and communities have relied on farms both big and small. Up until the 1930’s, there were few changes in the agriculture industry, but following the Great Depression and World War II, there was an explosion in farming technology, productivity, and the amount of federal government intervention. These changes led to a revolution in agriculture from about 1950 to 1970 that shaped the industry then and continues to do so today.…
The Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution took place around 8000-3000 BCE (Patton, lecture). During this time humans began to produce food and started to tame and domesticate animals to make their daily work easier to accomplish (Patton, lecture). Domestication is when people are in control of the breeding of plants and animals. This is done so that humans can select and keep the traits that make the plant or animal more useful for human needs…
Around 10,000 BC the ice sheets began melting, leading to rapid changing environments. The disappearance of these ice sheets opened up more habitable lands for humans, in the Americas, Australia, and Europe. (Teeple, 15) Many Ice Age animals were extinct either by human hand, or natural causes. (Fernandez-Armesto) The once nomadic hunters and gatherers discovered that they could “control” their food supplies more efficiently by growing plants instead of collecting them. This began the process of tilling, or farming. As for the hunters, they may have initiated another process of food production, called herding. By 9,000 BC, Eikorn wheat was being grown in Northern Syria, emerging as, “the first evidence of true cultivation.” (Teeple, 14) Around the same time, excavations at Nabta Playa, in Egypt, show that the wild ancestor of cattle, aurochs, were gradually being domesticated, and were fully by the 7th millennium BC. (Cremin, 77) “By c. 7,000 BCE wheat and barley were being cultivated from Anatolia to Pakistan, and the process of domesticating animals, mainly goat and sheep, had also begun.” (Teeple, 19) With these changes in food intake, the societies surrounding them began to change also.…
Agriculture in india is an important part of living. It has affected the country itself, and most importantly the human beings. Causing parents and children to become malnourished, lack of education, child labor, and diseases of all types transmitted by the family or through the…
This meant that the people were adapting plant and animal life to associate with and to, the advantage of human life. Farmers began to cultivate crops along the flood plains where the soil was rich in sediment. This was advantageous for the famers for many reasons including being able to cultivate a single plot many times as well as not being as dependent on rainfall. Once the farmers chose their specific grain to harvest, for example wheat, they would breed it to be bigger and easier to eat. Since wheat was fragile and easily spread by the wind in its natural environment, the farmers by harvesting continuously would have the grain to be less likely spread by the wind and sticking closer to the head of the plant. The harvesting of such crops occurred on a timely scale, leaving it to become tough and more renowned. It was the repetition of harvesting a certain crop along with sowing grains that led to the domestication of plants. When it was time to domesticate animals the individual had to keep in mind the animal’s size, temperament, diet, and mating patterns. Considering not only the above, but also the animals life span, determined whether or not success was achieved. Most of the animals that were domesticated were done so for a source of food. In their natural environment, pigs for example, were thin due to the fact that they had to forage for their food. When brought out…
Since the first Indians of this land, and throughout the founding of our country, agriculture has been an essential part of our nation. But today, less than 1% of Americans claimed farming as their occupation. With over 318.9 million people living in America, each farmer feeds 155 people per day. People don't realize that agriculture is a huge part of their everyday life. Many people buy their food from the store without recognizing the time and effort spent to make the product more suitable for consumers. Although farming is absolutely necessary to sustain life, the industry is being attacked from all sides.…
The beginning of agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild plants of wide success and earliest prominence occurred in the Mediterranean habitat of the Fertile Crescent. Early crops of the Fertile Crescent included barley, emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, peas, lentil, chickpeas, flax, and muskmelon. This change from hunter-gatherer to farmer was subtle at first and experimental, as the outcome was unknown and unforeseen to early farmers. To-be farmers would pick wild plants and take them to newly formed and formed because-of farming chiefdoms and plant the crops nearby. To-be farmers did not see this as an alternative to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but a supplement to caught or un-caught animals. They used the crops as a resort to low volumes of animals killed during a day and as a somewhat additive to their diets. As years passed, the chiefdoms became permanent towns and kingdoms because of the permanence required of farmers to maintain their crops.…