Fruits and vegetables were grown in the wild for thousands of years. It was just 11,000 years ago that people began to plant and harvest fruits and vegetables. Farmers began to experiment and grew new types of fruits and vegetables. Explorers found different types of fruits and vegetables and took them to other parts of the world to grow. Since different fruits and vegetables can be found in different places of the world, their history will be different.
Farming has a rich history, dating back to 10,000 years ago. However, earlier people began altering animal and plant communities for their own benefit through fire-stick farming. The Fertile Crescent, Egypt and India were the places of earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had been previously gathered in the wild. Agricultural practices such as irrigation, fertilizers, crop rotation, and pesticides were developed a long time ago but have made huge impacts in the past century. For example, the Haber-Bosch method for synthesizing ammonium nitrate represented a major breakthrough and allowed crop yields to overcome previous obstacles.
In Europe, agriculture went through a few significant chances during the Middle Ages. Tools including the plow and scythe were improved from classical versions, a three field system of crop rotation was invented, and the moldboard plow and wheeled plow become increasingly needed. Also, draft horses and oxen were bred and used as a working animal in many parts of Europe. At the time, much of Europe had low population densities, which made extensive farming beneficial. In other parts of the world, agriculture differed a bit.
Agriculture in India has a significant history. Indian agriculture began around 9000 B.C. as a result of early cult...
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Farming is the main supply for a country back then. The crops that farmers produce basically was the only food supply. That makes famers a very important part of society. Farmers back t...
Agriculture plays an enormous part in having a functioning society. The farming fields in the
The beginning of this process in different regions has been dated from 10,000 to 8,000 BC in theFertile Crescent and perhaps 8000 BC in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia to 2500 BC in Subsaharan Africa, with some considering the developments of 9000–7000 BC in the Fertile Crescent to be the most important. This transition everywhere seems associated with a change from a largely nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to a more settled, agrarian-based one, with the inception of the domestication of various plant and animal species, depending on the species locally available, and probably also influenced by local culture. Recent archaeological research suggests that in some regions such as the Southeast Asian peninsula, the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist was not
Agriculture has been around for hundreds of years. With its negative effects on humanity, agriculture has greatly affected the environment. Many archeologists believe that adoption of Agriculture was not an improvement but a disaster for humans in many ways. Jared Diamond, the author of the article called “The worst mistake in the history of the human race” argues that hunter-gatherers were better off than the farmers. In a way agriculture is believed to cause many problems for humans such as sexual inequality, deep class division, changed their diet which later led to poor health and diseases.
The first Crash Course video by John Green describes the primary point of the Agricultural Revolution by using an unappealing, double cheeseburger to show all processes needed to make the burger. This model is very effective; Green walks through the hunting and gathering agricultural methods of 15,000 years ago while comparing today’s dependency on all the ingredients. Although technology has progressed throughout the agricultural industry, basic farming methods have remained consistent.
First of all, human life totally changed by land cultivation. About 10,000 BCE humans began to grow crops and tame animals. This was a massive change from the old system of hunting and gathering. As a result, permanent settlements were established. This new method of growing food was so efficient that it produced a surplus of food. One of the most famous farming methods was slash and burn. Slash and burn technique is basically people burning a forest and used ash from a tree as a fer...
Before the land of what we no class Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and other countries in the middle east grains, such as wheat and wild barley, could be seen growing in the wild without human hand to cultivate and nurture it (Authors 2007). Over time, humans began to recognize the benefit of the plants and began the first signs of human agriculture. The skill of farming took time and trial and error, but along the way, humans began to settle down to tend to their crops. Though the first crops were nothing more than seed s thrown about without rhyme or reason to the process we know today such as fields having, rows and sorting out the seeds to create a higher yield each harvest (Authors 2007). Because of the trial and error process, agriculture of plants did not take place of a short period but took many, many years to evolve to what we know today as agriculture; the new fa...
The blessing and curse of the Agricultural Revolution is advocated with its augmentation and dissemination. Taking the stipulative definition of “blessing” and “curse” from the original premise, one can only superimpose the layman’s terms of “negative” and “positive”. Upon examination of the two classifications within the Neolithic Period and ancient Mesopotamian civilization one can confirm the premise. Therefore, the agriculture revolution was a blessing and a curse for humanity. Human society began to emerge in the Neolithic Period or the New Stone Age. This new age began around 9,000 B.C.E. by the development of agriculture in the region surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and what is commonly referred to as “The Fertile Crescent” located in West Asia.1 The very development of agriculture had benefited humans by no longer having to move about in search of wild game and plants. Unencumbered by nomadic life humans found little need to limit family size and possessions and settled in a single location for many years. One negative aspect of this settling is that the population increased so much so that wild food sources were no longer sufficient to support large groups. Forced to survive by any means necessary they discovered using seeds of the most productive plants and clearing weeds enhanced their yield.2 This also lead humans to develop a wider array of tools far superior to the tools previously used in the Paleolithic Period or Old Stone Age. The spread of the Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Period also cultivated positive aspects by creating connections with other cultures and societies. Through these connections they exchanged knowledge, goods, and ideas on herding and farming.3 Another major positive aspec...
Agriculture was very demanding because it required more regular work as difference as the hunting and gathering groups that existed before. Nevertheless, this life style was better; people got to have better food supply, they were able to build their own houses and agriculture generate stable communities were people could interact with one another. Agricultural societies contributed to a higher birth rate because young children were being used to cooperate in the labor of the land. But not everything was advantages in agriculture. Agricultural Revolution came with many disadvantages as well, disease was the mainly problem with agriculture. Many of the diseases were transmitted from animals to humans. Another negative consequence that came with Agricultural Revolution was a less varied diet. Some of the time farmers were just able to eat grins because they did not have any other source of food. Some of this grains lacked nutrients that the human body need to survive. Crop failure was other of the consequences of Agricultural revolution. Crop failure happened because some of the techniques that were being used were not being
Archaeologists commonly offer differing hypotheses for the origins of food production. Various theoretical approaches have attempted to identify the circumstances that caused people to shift to deliberate cultivation and do...
The Agricultural revolution saw a big change in medieval Europe. It may have occurred just after Charlemagne’s fall but this gave not only the empire but the world a huge benefit. It is strange how all these technological developments complemented each other in their working. The heavy plough worked in crop rotation for sowing thousands of seeds and the mills worked in it too with the irrigational facilities. The agricultural revolution played a huge role in bringing glory to a broken empire. The heavy plough, the windmill, the tidal mills, the wheel barrow and the concept of Crop farming brought great prosperity and financial benefits to the empire. The agricultural revolution is significant even in today’s world and it is commendable how engineers managed to bring such great inventions in the medieval times.
The first people that started to depend on farming for food were in Israel and Jordan in about 80000 B.C.. Farming became popular because people no longer had to rely on just searching for food to get their food. In about 3000 B.C. Countries such as Egypt and Mesopotamia started to develop large scale irrigation systems and oxen drawn plows. In about 500 B.C. the Romans started to realize that the soil needed certain nutrients in order to bare plants. They also realized that if they left the soil for a year with no plants, these important nutrients would replenish. So they started to leave half of a field fallow (unplanted). They then discovered that they could use legumes, or pulses to restore these vital nutrients, such as nitrogen, to the soil and this started the process known as rotating crops. They would plant half the field one year with a legume...
...as greatly advanced in the past 200 years thanks to mechanical tools replacing manual labor. It is the most important industry and will forever remain the base of our economy. Humans have constantly been trying to make it easier and quicker to produce crops, from wooden ploughs to pesticides. Agriculture is easily one of the most important and obvious signs of humanity and its adaptation and evolvement over thousands of years.
Farming has been an occupation since 8,500 B.C. On that year in the Fertile Crescent farming first began when people grew plants instead of picking them in the wild. Then nearly 5,000 years later oxen, horses, pigs, and dogs were domesticated. During the middle ages, the nobles divide their land into three fields. The reasoning for this was to plant two and leave one to recover. This was the start of crop rotation which is a big part of farming today. Burning down forest and then moving to another area is a farming technique used by the Mayans called Slash and burn. Mayan farmers also were able to drain swampy areas to farm them buy building canals. In 1701 Jethro Tull invented the seed drill and a horse drawn how that tilled the land. In Denmark they would plant turnips in the previously unplanted field. The turnips help restore the nutrients in the ground thus crop rotation is born. In England people began moving there fields closer to each other for a more efficient way of planting. Later in the 18th century selective breeding was introduce which made bigger, stronger, and more milk producing livestock. In the mid 1800’s a steam plough was invented. By the 1950 tractors, milking machines, and combines were used by almost farmers. The latest f...
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