The Importance Of Agriculture, Domestication, Germs And Steel

Its geography. Geography controls climate and climate controls what foods people can grow. What foods people can grow impacts a civilization a lot, some can’t even have food for a week. They can be a civilization like the Fertile Crescent with wheat and they harvest it easy to do other things. Or be like Papua New Guinea constantly working for food and can’t do much else than that. The Fertile Crescent is in the Middle East and there they live in a semiarid area which means it's dry but still get seasonal rain. And so their main food source is wheat. Wheat is a great food, it can be stored for several years and it’s high in protein. So when people go to harvest it it won’t take a long time. With the extra time they have, they can have specialists to experiment with things like steel. Over the years they learned to farm so they have more than enough food and even more time. But Papua New Guinea can’t do that. They live in the tropics so they can’t grow the same thing as the Fertile Crescent. One of their main food sources is Sago. Sago is a tree that takes a few days to harvest. First cut it down with stone tools, hollow it out, take the pulp of the inside of the tree and make it into a paste that has hardly any protein. It can’t be stored for a long time and the process of getting the tree cut down uses more calories than the food provides. So the people of Papua New Guinea are constantly working for food and they are a hunter gather civilization so they are on the move following their food.. Wheat and Sago are two completely two different foods. One takes a couple of minutes, the other takes a couple of days. So with Wheat the people of the Fertile Crescent have plenty of time to invent more or new tools. Papua New Guinea can’t invent stuff, plus they are on the move a lot of the time. Their a hunter and gatherer civilization. This leads to inequality in the world. Some

The society was affected because the farm lands abandoned and the food food prices dropped. There was not as much food needed because the populations had dropped. The people were down sick and they could not work which caused the farm lands to be abandoned and

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.

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.

To begin, the discontent of the farmers had a major effect socially on society at the time. Food

Agricultural societies allow for a greater population density, than hunter-gatherer societies. With a greater population of people, not everyone has to farm; therefore people can ‘specialize’ in other areas such as political organization. Also, people can focus on gun, steels, and ships other than just

Agriculture was such a prominent part in every civilization since the beginning of time. It was a way for humans to be one with their land for it gave them means to survive. As agriculture became much more recognized in Africa, “cultivators and herders displaced many of the hunting, gathering and fishing peoples who previously inhabited Saharan Africa.” (Bentley,384) With the progression of new technology; iron axes, adzes, and hoes were created, and revolutionized agriculture on their land. The introduction of bananas from sea lanes became popular in Africa and increased the supply of food that was available. Likewise for Medieval Europe, cultivation on Europe grounds allowed more room for agricultural techniques, the utilization of developed tools and technologies, and the institution of new crops. Similar to Africa, population pressure rose and space for more agriculture became necessary. Beans were important to the diets of Europeans as were the bananas to African diets. They also dug ponds to raise fish which in turn led to new

The development of a successful agriculture depends on your geography because your geography will control your climate. Your climate will allow your agriculture to either develop quickly or stay at a slow, steady rate. If you're agriculture doesn’t nourish your people, then civilizations won’t develop. Papua New Guinea is located near the equator with heavy rainfall and no seasons. Even though the land is covered in greens, there is a very small amount of edible foods; sago is one of these and also the most eaten. But sago takes 3 to 4 days to harvest and burns a lot of calories while doing so. Sago doesn’t

Passive entertainment means little to no interactivity due to entertainment such as television, videogames, or radio. While Americans are busy spending hours with these activities, New Guineans are out doing something that encourages them

Agriculture, having the many advantages of growing populations and specializations also brought disadvantages like sexual inequality and social inequality

Geography and the environment play a monumental role in the establishment and success of a nearly every civilization. For example, rivers bring water and allow for agricultural development, while mountains or deserts provide for protection and create a barrier. Many things, such as the aforementioned deserts and mountains, can offer both positive and negative influences on the society in question. The climate and amount of rainfall is directly related to the success or failure of crop growing, and thus related to the amount of time spent on simply surviving. Civilizations that are able to spend less time on subsistence farming are able to redirect that energy towards the establishment of arts, culture, religion, and science. Where a

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

Having less farmland it makes a negative impact on society. Farming less pushes a negative pressure on people to tear down wooden environments. “3.5 billion to 7 billion trees are cut down per year”(Rainforest Action Network). Which limits the amount of oxygen that is supplied to humans, without this would causes many health issue, even death. With

Agriculture introduced class divisions, which were previously absent when people were hunters. This was enabled by the fact that the rich people could afford to store their produce and they lived better lives than the others did. Agriculture encouraged gender inequality as women were made to work in the fields and carry the heavy burdens. people adopted agriculture, women were forced to have more children so that they could work on the land. poor nation ami to produce marketable to develop there country . Poor nation try to produce something else as much as food are forced to produce oil. This mean that there is no food to support the country's population and people end up hunger. America importing oil and mineral product instead of producing

Although delivery pizza and soda pop is delicious, it wasn’t always around. Before there were grocery stores, everybody had to grow/crop their own food or search for their food. Then some parts of the world started to develop their civilization. They begin to develop animal domestication, medicine and resistance to disease, steel tools, and eventually grocery stores. While in other parts of the world, civilizations stayed the same. They still had stone tools and hunted/gathered their own food. Why did this happen? How were only certain parts of the world developing? The reason for this all comes back to the location, geography, climate, agriculture, animals, germs, and steel.