A Brief Note On The West East, William Garcia. Hist 002 World History

Humans have used hunting and gathering for many years, it did the job to feed family's. As population grew humans evolved and switched to agriculture. Some may argue that “Agriculture came with the gross and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.” This causes some to argue that, switching

The emergence of agriculture was a major stepping stone in human history. During this birth of agriculture, also known as the Neolithic revolution, humans began inhabiting permanent settlements, grow their own crops, and domesticate both plants and animals for food (Weisdorf, 2005). Considering humans have been hunter-gatherers for the majority of their approximately 7 million years of existence, the emergence of agriculture in the Old World only occurring 10,000-5,000 years ago, marks a significant transformation in food sustenance techniques (Weisdorf, 2005). However, this turning point in history is associated with both positive and negative implications. There is much controversy over whether or not the introduction of

All throughout history, humans have come up with innovations that have brought both positive and negative changes to the way people live. This all started around 10,000 BCE, when people developed agriculture. The first nomads started off by moving from place to place, hunting and gathering food… but as people developed agriculture, they saved a lot more time. After agriculture developed, the humans learned many things such as farming and taming wild animals for their own use. This time in history was called the Neolithic Revolution… which lasted about 6,000 years, until 4,000 BCE. The big change in the way people got their food and how they lived, resulted to positive and negative changes of human innovations of the Neolithic Revolution. So,

The main idea of Howell’s arguments about the Neolithic Revolution is that the adoption of agriculture is beneficial because hunting life makes nature in control of humans. Nature controls the limit on animals and plants. When it reaches its limit in a given place, humans are forced to move to survive. Nature requires humans to spread themselves out across the land and limit the number of people they band themselves with to not use all the natural resources in short amount of time. Moreover, the limited resources cause groups to kill off the young, sick, and elderly to lower the amount of humans exploiting the land. As a result of isolation amongst each other, humans rarely become civilized or social and the sexual division of labour does not change. As a result of agriculture, food is domesticated and grown rather than gathered. Also, humans are able to create civilizations with hundreds of people.

The transition from the traditional hunter gatherer societies, in to an agriculture based living system, has allowed humans to increase their population size, putting strains on the Earth’s environment. Agriculture has also brought along with it a decrease in women’s roles in the community, while also bringing about a class system where the wealthy rule, and were the weak and poor obey. As humans began to domesticate more plants and animals, they settled in permanent areas. The Change from hunter gatherer benefited few, but had dire consequences for the earth and groups with in it. One such consequence was the population increase, which has lead to major issues throughout history, and one that has ties to current global issues.

Prior to living in homes build to with stand the test of time, growing food their food source, and raising animals, humans were nomads who followed their food source around and were hunters and gathers. Although it took many years, from 8000B.C. to 3000B.C. for humans to go from hunters and gathers to a more common day life as we now know it, the result is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution the begins of human civilization. As the people of this time began to settle down and they began to both farm the land and domesticate animals for the better of the community. Along with the development of these communities as for the first time began to create social class among the many different roles they played in their community. Because

The medieval warm period was a period of time in our history where the world saw usually warm weather, hence the name medieval warm period. Archaeologists using different type of methods have discovered that between 800 A.D and 1200 A.D. The world went through a warming phase that change how many people lived. They have been able to figure this out from different types of evidence that has been left behind from back then. One way, is from tree rings which we have looked at before.

The Neolithic Revolution was one of the major turning points in human history. From hunters and gathers, we turned to farming to fill our daily dose of nutrition. Everybody was impacted due to this drastic change. The population grew, children started to work, and changing roles within a family. Before the Neolithic Revolution women took up a role as a major economic supplier to the family. But with this revolution, it was difficult for them to continue this role to do the longer period of time due to their responsibilities of carrying children, raising young children and dealing with their upbringing. Many just believe in the obvious positives with agricultural, but there were many setbacks. Some of these setbacks include new view of inequality,

Agriculture spread in the Neolithic Era much like people spread in the Paleolithic Era. Agriculture spread a while after the people had all spread out. The main difference is that agriculture started and spread out of the Middle East instead of starting and spreading out of Africa like the people had done. By about 10,000 B.C. all the people had just about settled the world. Later from 8,000-5,000 B.C. is when agriculture started being used in the Middle East but not as a main source of food. The hunting of game animals was still the dominant source of food at the time. It was not until about 3,500 B.C. that agriculture could support most of the population in the Middle East.

This period is known as the Neolithic revolution, which was the discovery of skills to produce and store foods and was the greatest revolution in mankind’s history. Skills like hunting and gathering were apart of the first system where the collection of items would translate to the production is the first time human labor was split into specific functions or jobs to improve and maintain a settlements. This was also a principle of ownership and creating land barricades and the storage of food. (Furon, R. Manuel de Prehistorie Generale. Paris: Payor; 1958.) The origin of the farming practices was located on the wide belt of Southestern Asia. (Fertile Crescent region) ] Furon, R. Manuel de Prehistorie Generale. Paris: Payor; 1958. The domestication of ancient grasses and plants began in the Neolithic Settlements from ancestors like Triticum monococcum bocoticcum and T. monococcum uratru in Turkey, Iran and Iraq which was located in the northeastern region along with Triticum turgidum dicoccoides in Israel/Palestine, Syria and Lebanon located in the southwestern region. Grasses and plants extended from the Mediterranean Coast to the great Tigris Euphrates plan all the way continuing east ([2] Lewin R. A revolution of ideas in agriculture origins. Science 1988;240:984–6.) ([3] Feldman, M. The wild gene resources of wheat. Sci Am 1981;January:98–109).

Paleolithic people were hunter-gatherers, and this is a relatively easy way to live, they spent only a few hours a day hunting and gathering food, leaving them with plenty of leisure time to spend talking, singing, playing games, sleeping, and other such activities. In societies such as this kind, the men hunt while the women and children plant food and gather small edibles like eggs, insects, and more. As paleolithic people are nomadic, they do not accumulate many possessions, and they move on quite frequently following migrating herds of animals.

The Paleolithic period was also known as the Stone Age, it was known to begin about 2.5 to 2 million years ago. Although people do not know every single detail about this group of people at this time, we do know a little that can help us understand them. Throughout time we begin to understand things that they used to survive. This was the first time we can see people using tools and weapons made out of stone. It helped them perform tasks that were necessary. Crafted to help men and women fulfil the duties they needed to survive. In a time where homo-sapiens lived in groups of up to 20-30 people. It was always known as the roll of the men to hunt for a steady supply of food and the women to gather necessities such as fruits, vegetables, and

Around 9000 B.C.E, the early stage of civilization formation was indicated by semi-nomadic society. Having nomadic soul, however, the semi-nomadic tried to reconstruction the earlier civilization and develop it greater than the old one in the cultural and geography component (Butler, 2012). The nomads tried to organize their life simply. This organization is the pioneer of civilization. The males hunt for wild animals and the females gather the plants and also cultivate them. Yet, this cultivation could not stay longer because of lessening of ground fertility. Since there was no knowledge of how to cultivate well, the production of harvesting decline along with diminishing of ground fertility. Again, this group got a deficiency of foods, and should wander to find the new land to survive.

Fifteen hundred years ago humans primarily gained their food from foraging and hunting. Hunting fish was especially viable since most civilizations settle near the coast, which, provided water, a human necessity. Plant domestication later arisen independently in many of the world’s major agricultural regions. This proved to be a smart decision as it helps sustain a larger population and was useful during times of drought or famine. Certain people could also be designated for agricultural involving tasks which helped develop social classes. In some cases agriculture based civilizations forced other into the job which resulted in slavery. Herding is also a major aspect of agriculture as animals provide meat, and byproducts

In Neolithic period the predominant characteristic was the change of the hunting to farmer’s style. The main cause could be the survivor. The agriculture was seen like a more efficient way and of less effort to feed. Both life styles have its advantages and disadvantages. Between the advantages of the hunting we have the control of the population of animals in a certain area, there developed the planning and strategies of work in group, knowledge of the animal behavior. Inside the disadvantages, there could be observed the danger that was representing the hunting for wild animals and even of major size, not always the hunting was successful therefore it had to migrate to areas with major animal’s population. The human civilization learned to