1a Agricultural Revolution

David Wang

Agri Rev 10,000 BCE – 2000/3000 BCE • Ppl depend on plants • Then changed to food producers • Neolithic Rev (10K years ago)

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Food gath  food prod. How start? B.c. of scarcity w/ food supply, so they make the food They started spreading seeds and killing enemy plants Tools- stone head tools (exp from making weapons) Bones and wood to work with grain

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Slash and burn, burn stf  helps agri in area Larger seeds= more food

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8000 BCE barley and emer wheat developed 5000 BCE wheat in Nile Valley 3000 40-60 live together in 500 acres to live, use 1/3 of it to rotate Some rotate yearly, or growing season 2600 BCE ox drawn wooden plows starts domestication Rice starts in china or India 10,000-5000 Corn in Americas 3000 BCE Yam in western Africa First domesticated- dogs for hunting Use animal for travel, hunt, food 7000 BCE sheep and goats domesticated

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How to tame animals? Use occurent conditioning= giving pos or neg rewards, if animals do good then they get reward, if they do bad then they get punishment 3000 BCE cattle buffalo and pig in India, water buffalo in China In Americas animals not suitable for tame Africa pastorialism hard

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State of nature – Loche talked about – place of tim w/ no govt/ free will do what ev (Robert Nosick also talks bout) ^ strength, intelligence, and charisma becomes imp b.c. con do whatev Most societies male dominants, some excep Dem come of  ? Monarchies, dictatorship, - basic systems Food prod harder, less nutritious than gath, more disease, shorter life span ^ but have stable food source (theory) Female deith earth mother, male sky god encourages agriculture Ppl start becoming specialized into pottery and other stf

ESP charts Economic- money, exports, imports, type of econ, common jobs Social- how groups interact, what behaviors aren’t are acceptable, what ppl do for fun, sports, leisure activity, culture stf, religion Political – type of govt, 3 branches, % of woman, minority group (power) federal/state/ local