Ancient People And Agriculture

Farming has been a source of work ever since man has been introduced to the earth, but the past 100 years have been promising in continuing to provide for the needs of the growing population. The people have become more educated, and technology has become much more advanced. The two have come together to boon the land and animals so that they produce to their fullest potential. The people of the world have been influenced to the extent that they work smarter not harder to provide for the growing population. Farming, a crucial necessity to the survival of mankind, has evolved in the area of education of the people which has assisted in the advances of technology, land, and animal production which will lead to the provision of food for the growing

Agriculture is only one of the many contributes to where we are today. Geographic location affects agriculture because each specific crop has needs, if you can’t meet those needs, then you can’t grow the crops. Some plants need super wet land and some need super dry land ,let’s say you live in Papua New Guinea they live closer the the equator so they have the same weather year round. So if you’re constantly getting the same amount of sunlight all year then you’ll only be able to grow the same crops over and over again. Papua New Guinea had sago, to get sago people there would have to cut down the sago tree, cut the sago tree in half and collect the sago inside. With sago you have to have a wet climate, the sago tree takes three or four days to prepare. Sago does not last long after it is prepared, sago is low in protein and uses more calories then it gives. But Fertile Crescent on the other hand live farther from the equator, so they end up getting four seasons while rotating around the sun.Which leads to an advantage in almost everything. A change in weather four times a year gives them a chance to plant and grow

The Neolithic Revolution was a very important event in history. Without this revolution humanity would not have advanced at all; they would have continued as nomads for a longer period of time. Man would continue wandering looking for their meals, never would have adapted to agriculture, and never would have decided to settle down permanently in an area. Overall, the Neolithic Revolution had a more positive impact on

The more people there were the more discovery man made during this time. The invention of agriculture led to the settled life. Since man no longer needed to roam, all they had to do was put a seed in the ground and watch it grow. Tool and weaponry became more advanced, and pottery and the potters wheel was invented.

Unlike Paleolithic time's, man could have more leisure time to spend. This led him to broaden the society he was living in and led to increased populations in the Neolithic Age. The more people there were the more discovery man made during this time. The invention of agriculture led to the settled life. Since man no longer needed to roam, all they had to do was put a seed in the ground and watch it grow. Tool and weaponry became more advanced, and pottery and the potters wheel was invented.

Approximately 2.5 million years ago humans lived as hunter-gatherers that would move in bands, later on, they would turn into the great civilization of the ancient world due to better technique and a more organized society. Starting from the neolithic age which consists of hunter-gatherers. There were basically early modern humans. Hunter-gatherers had populated a lot of the earth by 30,000 years ago, continued the hunter and gathering way of life. They would feed off of wild plants and animals and move from one location to another. They would also use the fur of their killings as clothes. In a hunting and gatherings economy, they would move from one location to another to secure their food supply. Hunter-gatherers were very self-sufficient.

• Houses were stronger, they had an enhanced diet, brought more livestock, and used manure for fertilizer for better crops.

Farming initially developed in the Middle East, the Fertile Crescent. Grains such as barley and wild wheat were abundant. Also, not heavily forested, and animals were in short supply, presenting a challenge to hunters. 10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. Notice: it took thousands of years for this “revolution” so not fast but profound for history. Agriculture was hard for many hunting and gathering peoples to adopt – lots of work. Those in agricultural communities developed diseases, which they became immune. The agricultural people would unintentionally infect the hunters.

Humans’ lives would be drastically different if it wasn’t for the Neolithic Revolution. All the lifestyle changes in this time period made a drastic change in how individuals lived. However, Paleolithic people were nomads in search of food. Also, no one had specific jobs because everyone’s jobs were focused on hunting and gathering food. During this time period, everything was made of stone because it was an easy to find and bountiful resource.

One reason why the Neolithic Revolution had a positive impact on people because during this time period developed society and a division of labor emerged. Division of labor is the creation of different specialized jobs, which benefits a community. For example, artisans create clothes, jewelry, and pottery. These artifacts were often traded by the artisans themselves or the people who bought the products. Trading is the act of exchanging an object to somebody, for something else that benefits you.

The two books " A History of the World I Six Glasses," by Tom Standage and " A People's History of the World," by Chris Harman both talked about ancient world history. Agriculture was a big party in ancient civilization. Before agriculture civilization started with hunters and gatherers. But, after the domestication of plants and animals it helped with the economy. This period was called the Neolithic Era. After that human society began to evolve, creating an easier life style.

In the beginning of agriculture and with the growth and cultivation of crops in order to feed a group of people, this marked the end of the hunter gather lifestyle and was the beginning of small farming villages. These small groups of people had began to be more rooted and stay in distinctive regions, they were proceeding to start being more dependent on agriculture in order to be able to sufficiently feed themselves. First, people had lived a very nomadic lifestyle; they had to keep following their food in order to eat. So, staying in one place for a long period was very rare. Once they started to plant crops and were cultivating the land to survive, they started to build more sturdy homes that were stationary and started to develop the start of a civilization.

The first settlers of Mesopotamia learned to cultivate and harvest crops, which would provide a bountiful supply for food. This enabled the people to settle and create villages, which eventually led to larger communities and cities. People no longer had to move throughout the land hunting animals in order to feed but instead could live off the land and in

They would hunt and gather food in order to survive. This led the way to tribalism where a group of hunter-gatherers would stay together in order to have a better chance of surviving.

In the past farming was done by hand; corn shucking and grain plowing was a simple and time consuming past time in which ones whole career was placed. However, over time the process became more mechanized; speed and efficiency became valued causing new innovations that seemed to be just as helpful as they were harmful. For example, men lost their valuable farming jobs and oil consumption increased. Even so time progressed; the alteration to how food was gathered and made grew larger and larger a degree that in 1995 the genetic structure of food was beginning to be manually altered. Genetic engineered foods are found in over a large portion of America’s food. This genetic modification broadly affects our world. Though, what is the trade to this innovation? It been used for find solutions to problems dealing with land, water, jobs, politics, water, and taxes. However, there is a trade off; many secrets hide behind the doors of those who create, modify, and sell these genetically modified organisms. In the world of genetic modification moral codes and rules are broken, fear is created, and risks are constantly taken. All this showing that while genetically modified food has not yet been proven scientifically wrong, genetic modification is a morally wrong decision.