The History of Agriculture

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The History of Agriculture
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Humans have 3 basic needs

• Food
• Fiber
• Shelter

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Sources of Food

• Leaves
• Seeds
• Roots
• Fruits

• Flowers
• Stems
• Animals

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Before Agriculture

• No steady food supply
• Nomadic people (wondered from place to place)
• Tough winters
• Population limited
• Concentrated on 3 needs

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Beginnings of Ag

• 7000 BC Domesticated animals in Asia
• 1300 BC crops in China and Sweden
• 3000 BC Aquaculture in China
• 1500 AD in the US

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Domestication

• Happened by chance?
• Based on observations and ingenuity

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Agriculture

• Allowed specialization
• In the past 1 person could grow food for 1-5
  people
• Now 1 person can grow food for 1000 or more

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Why the difference?

• TECHNOLOGY!!!
• People went from using
• Hands to
• Sticks/primitive tools to
• Plows to
• Tractors to
• GPS and other advanced technology
• The greatest advances are also the most recent.

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Worksheet

• 1 - glossary
• 2 - use your head
• 3 - 31
• 4 - glossary
• 5 45
• 6 - 27,29
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10 - 19
• 11 - 10
• 12 - 29
• 13 -