- Takes place in Neolithic, agriculture revolution
- Beginning about 12,000 years ago
- Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals
- Gradually replaced gathering and hunting in most parts of world
- Selective breeding of animals
- Mutual dependence of humans on plants and animals and vice versa
- More food led to more people getting much more from less land
- Agriculture revolution happened independently in several world regions, all around the same time
- Coincided with end of ice age
- Amazon people learned to cut back plants to grow ones they wanted
- Women were likely agricultural innovators
- Population growth may have led to a food crisis
- Variation across regions depending on plants and animals that were available
- Including in the Americas
- Agricultural practices adapted based on very different climates
- Agriculture spread in 2 ways
- Diffusion: Gradual spread
- Colonization/migration
- Agriculture spread led to the spread of language and culture
- Globalization of agriculture took about 10,000 years
- Was rested where land unsuitable for farming
- Led to greater population
- Effected environment
- Did not necessarily improve life for average person
- Usually meant more hard work
- Health deteriorated in early agriculture societies
- New risk of famine
- New technology advances
- Brewing of alcohol because the correct plants could be grown
- No pastoral societies emerged in Americas
- I am so amazed at the way earlier people made so much with so little
- The equality of men and women in history is surprising to me, I was expecting to read more about male dominance. To me this displays the strong values earlier people had
- I am grateful to our ancestors for the foundations they provided us with, agriculture is still such a huge part of our lives and I can't imagine how things would be if they didn't take the steps they did
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