Inequalities In The World

Agriculture is the main reason we have civilization today, for without food surplus people would spend their days finding food and water constantly. Native Americans started like all other people in the world, doing just that, until over time they turned food production into an art. Without the elaborate specialization of crops over time, people would not have reached the point that they had before the Europeans had arrived. The allowance of food surplus led to the ability to advance culturally, scientifically, and economically.

Hunter-Gathers have a great understanding of the potential plants have in their environment. Some groups were conservative and resisted change, however some were ready to innovate. The Fertile Crescent had climate that favored annual plants and species mix. The result was an array of crops including protein-rich cereals and pulses. Other regions, including New Guinea and the eastern United States, lacked such a variety of crops.

Farming made people’s lives easier. It brought steady food supplies and allowed people to stay longer in one place. As the Fertile Crescent grew in popularity, more people were able to work on the farms, which resulted in copious amount of crops and many more people survived. People flourished in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years. However, the village in the Fertile Crescent did not last long. People began to abandon their homes and move because it was hard to make a living after they destroyed most of their environment. Since there was no grass, a couple of trees, and minimum water, villagers were unable to farm and meet their needs to grow and survive. The only chance to survive was to move east or west. The East and the West had the same latitude, meaning similar climate, vegetation, and length of day. Geography played a big role in the rise of Eurasian cultures because the Fertile Crescent was in the center of a large area. Farming happened in many places while going east or west because there were plenty of land to grow and gather

The people living in the Fertile Crescent were keenly simple. They started out as Hunters and Gatherers, but with time took to farming as a source of longer lasting and easier to get food. They grew Wheat and Barley, and seemingly selectively only harvested the biggest and best of it. This is an early example of mankind selectively breeding. A process which ends with almost all of the selectively bred product being just the way you want it to be - naturally! Furthermore, today according to PBS “There are around 570 million acres of wheat worldwide”, (Prososki.Wheat) and that's not even including barley! On another note, in addition to growing wheat and barley these early farmers of the fertile crescent also domesticated livestock.

Farming, I learned, has an enormous impact on the growth of civilization. So much so, that Diamond spends seven chapters on the control food had over how successful a certain region became. Animals are integral to the success of human beings and that is why the shift from hunting-gathering to farming and domestication

A part that came with agriculture was social classes. When the Neolithic revolution came along a greater population calls for more food. So for hunter gatherers it was too hard for them to go through a forest

Inequality has been an issue from the dawn of time. All throughout history we can see prime examples of this. World war two and the german invasion, The Spanish and the Incas, and the most well known example, today. But few people have ever asked why it’s always been this way. Europe had geography on it’s side, giving them agricultural advantages, helping them to domesticate animals (and in turn, building resistance to disease) leading to a surplus of food for specialists to invent and experiment. Finally, that led to the decimation of other cultures, and the appropriation of their resources.

By providing a more dependable and plentiful food supply, farming provided the basis for new lifestyles far more complex societies.” I agree with this because, by domesticating these three cereal grains and settling down to farm them, neither the human race or the grains could thrive without the other. Humans could not settle down and prosper without a crop to harvest every year because, without that, they would be forced to return to the nomadic lifestyle. Without developing permanent communities to farm these domesticated crops, society as we know it may have never developed.

In 1920 American women were allowed to vote. While in Papa New Guinea people were trying to find a more efficient way of farming. This shows just how unequal our world is. So what causes inequality? The cause of inequality is due to geography. Farming and domesticated animals is where the problem started. After domesticated animals, came steel leading to the exposure of germs. For a civilization to succeed it needs a steady source of crops, domesticated animals, production of steel, and early exposure to germs.

After the people of the Fertile Crescent developed farming, others followed. In China, people grew rice, a cereal grass. In the Americas, it was corn, squash and beans. In Africa, people farmed sorghum, millet and yams. In most places where farming emerged, a relatively large, advanced civilization followed. Moreover, those had access to the most productive and nutritious crops became the best

The article underlines a major cause for the alarming prevalence of chronic diseases in our society. Socioeconomic inequality ties in several risk factors like the higher likelihood of smoking, alcoholism, and poor diets. Additionally, socioeconomic inequality increased the risk of many common mental disorders(WHO). The wellbeing of one’s mental health heavily depends on his/her economic, physical condition. The study evaluated the health status of the homeless population in terms of chronic disease prevalence (asthma, diabetes, tuberculosis, mental health disorders, sexually transmitted diseases, sinus problems). Investigators analyzed the health status by comparing the homeless population to the general population using medical records

Some inequalities which still remain to day is the wage gap between men and women, the education gap between students, and the opportunities offered for minorities. I believe a wage gap between men and women still remain because of the CEO positions put in place. Including the ignorance of people who hire the employees. The society also puts in place the belief of men to be inferior to women. I also think the education gap between students also exists because the low funding for students who go to schools in poor areas.This also gives the students less opportunities. The society also affects how minorities gain opportunities. The majority of minorities live in poor areas, which this also going hand and hand with the difficulties of education

You would think that when it comes to carrying your own weight that one would take pride in it and get it done. Well that is simply not the case all the time. In the world of taxation, the people who are getting affected the most are the more wealthy people. Most wealthy people carry their own weight and also pick up the slack of most poor people. For example, taxes pay for government programs like Food Stamps, WIC, Welfare; just to name a few. Not all poor people can help what their income looks like and must play the hand they are dealt, but there are many poor people who just wants things handed to them. Income inequalities are no stranger to the block and have been around for ages. On one side you have the wealthy people who want their

A major driving force towards agriculture was the rapidly increasing population size dilemma that humans faced. Increasing population size was a critical reason why agriculture soon would replace hunting and gathering since that alone would not be able to sustain the growing population size. Thus, agriculture allowed for massive productions of food, resulting in an abundance of food. This abundance of food was stored meaning if one year the cultivation season didn’t produce sufficient nutriment due to any casual factors, the masses would still be able to survive on the food that was produced the year before. Unlike agriculture, hunting and gathering didn’t allow for this to happen since, they only hunted and gathered, as they needed in that specific moment. Additionally, another reason for the beginning of farming is politics. The distribution of food was

They also need a specific type of food source, which is controlled by the climate.The civilizations that have the right temperature and food for animals that can be domesticated are able to develop faster than civilizations that don’t have domesticated animals. This is because domesticated animals save a lot more time than going out and hunting, which makes more time to invent new things to help their civilization develop. The Fertile Crescent had a sub-arid climate with seasons. Because this allowed them to farm wheat and barley, the Fertile Crescent didn’t need as many people to help out with preparing their food. This opened up time for those who didn’t need to help out on the farms, and they discovered that not only they could capture and grow their own crops, but they could also capture and raise animals. Over time they figured out that most animals that can’t be domesticated is because of their diet, growth rate, tendency to panic, have a tendency to kill humans, or have problems with breeding in captivity,. An 1,000 pound animal needs about 10,000 pounds of food, and if a civilization were to domesticate a carnivore, then that animal would need 10,000 pounds of herbivore meat, which would need to be fed 100,000 pounds of crops, which is 90,000 pounds of food that could be used for humans to eat rather than their livestock’s food. If a