Where Did Agriculture Originate? a. Began before recorded history. A. Origins of Agriculture. a. Agriculture
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Modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for sustenance or economic gain. (1) Originated when humans domesticated plants and animals. b. Crop
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Any plant cultivates by humans. 1. Hunters and Gatherers. a. Lived in small groups (<50). (1) Large groups would use up more resources. b. Men hunted and women gathered. (1) Based on archaeology and anthropology, not stereotypes. c. Kept peace by steering clear of each other’s territory. d. Less than a quarter million (0.005%) still hunt and gather. (1) Spinifex (Pila Nguru) i. Au stralia’s Great Victorian Desert …show more content…
Mexico
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beans and cotton, Peru
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potato iii. Maize b. Animals were also domesticated in many hearths. (1) Southwest Asia i. Cattle, goats, pigs, sheep ii. 8,000 to 9,000 years ago iii. Dog
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12,000 years ago iv. Horse
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Central Asia
Seth Adler c. First used animals to cultivate the land and were later used to sell leather and milk. d. Both environmental and cultural factors contributed to agriculture. (1) Those who favor environmental reference climate change around 10,000 years ago. (End of last ice age) (2) Those who favor cultural say that humans preferred living in a fixed place. e. People noticed that discarded food and berries grew into new plants. Later generations learned to use water and manure. f. Improved communications have increased diffusion of plants around the world. B. Subsistence and Commercial Agriculture a. Farmers in LDCs practice subsistence farming, whereas farmers in MDCs practice commercial agriculture. b. Subsistence agriculture
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production of food for the farmers’ family. c. Commercial agriculture
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production of food for sale. d. The most widely used map of agriculture was done by Derwent Whittlesey. (1) 11 regions
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Modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for sustenance or economic gain. (1) Originated when humans domesticated plants and animals. b. Crop
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Any plant cultivates by humans. 1. Hunters and Gatherers. a. Lived in small groups (<50). (1) Large groups would use up more resources. b. Men hunted and women gathered. (1) Based on archaeology and anthropology, not stereotypes. c. Kept peace by steering clear of each other’s territory. d. Less than a quarter million (0.005%) still hunt and gather. (1) Spinifex (Pila Nguru) i. Au stralia’s Great Victorian Desert …show more content…
Mexico
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beans and cotton, Peru
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potato iii. Maize b. Animals were also domesticated in many hearths. (1) Southwest Asia i. Cattle, goats, pigs, sheep ii. 8,000 to 9,000 years ago iii. Dog
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12,000 years ago iv. Horse
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Central Asia
Seth Adler c. First used animals to cultivate the land and were later used to sell leather and milk. d. Both environmental and cultural factors contributed to agriculture. (1) Those who favor environmental reference climate change around 10,000 years ago. (End of last ice age) (2) Those who favor cultural say that humans preferred living in a fixed place. e. People noticed that discarded food and berries grew into new plants. Later generations learned to use water and manure. f. Improved communications have increased diffusion of plants around the world. B. Subsistence and Commercial Agriculture a. Farmers in LDCs practice subsistence farming, whereas farmers in MDCs practice commercial agriculture. b. Subsistence agriculture
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production of food for the farmers’ family. c. Commercial agriculture
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production of food for sale. d. The most widely used map of agriculture was done by Derwent Whittlesey. (1) 11 regions