5.3 Agricultural Origins Amd Diffusions Flashcards
What was domesticated first :
Plants or animals
Plants
How did modern day corn evolve
Farmed in mesoAmerica where farmers took the time to evolve one inch corn into the ears we have today
What two animals are domesticated regionally but not globally
Llamas and water Buffalo
List the 4 agricultural hearths
Southwest Asia, china and Malaysia, africa, and the Americas (mesoAmerica)
What crops came from Africa
Peanuts and coffee
What is the Colombian exchange
The diffusion and widespread of plants, animals, cultures, diseases, technology and population
What did the Spanish bring to California
Olives and grapes and dates.
What unintended consequences can
Happen from the diffusion of agriculture
An area can become too dependent and when it crashes it will cause major problems
Fertile Crescent
Southwest Asia where the earliest domestication of seed plants occurred
First agriculture revolution
Early domestication of plants and animals and the cultivation of seed crops led to the development of agriculture
What crops came from the Indus River valley
Dry rice and wheat
List the four major landmarks of the agriculture revolution
Nile (Egypt)
Euphrates and Tigris River (Mesopotania)
Indus River (India)
Yellow River (china)