Economic Modality Of Subsistence Flashcards
This was one of the Ancient Economic modality of subsistence. It is a mode of economy implicating the pragmatic cultivation of the soil as made viable for the crop cultivars. Transhumance endured the grazing of livestock . The life of the Agriculturists commenced since time of antiquity. It is known by other appellation : Husbandry and Farming . The etymological origin of the lexicon emanated from Middle French and Latin , “ Agricultura” . Cogitate this formula :
Ager ( field ) + Culture ( cultivation ) .
Agriculture
This economic transaction involves the seasonal transit of livestock to a more arable land to ensure the grazing of livestock.
Transhumance
Ancient Egyptian had crop and land management . It had heavy reliance on upon this utilitarian technology to hoist the water filled buckets . This artificial mean was utilized since the antiquated time . The lexicon is , etymologically speaking , Arabic from ‘ Shaduf ‘.
Shadoof
The Ancient African Agriculture began with Settlers’ cultivation along the Red Sea Hill and Ethiopian Highland. They extirpated and culled nuts , sedges , grasses , and tubers. Beginning around 10,000 B.C., to 8,000 B.C. , the North East Africans engaged in spontaneous cultivation of Wheat and Barley. When did the 1st Agrarian way of life begin ?
16,000 B.C.
A Factor or a trained and callous slave catcher.
Caboceer
What spurred the Population growth in the wake of Saharan Desertification aside from the competitive demand for agricultural produces ?
Crop cultivation of Wheat and Barley And Domestication of cattle , goats , and sheep
What is Nyami ?
African Yams
There was a substantial shift in Dahomey commercial interest around the 19th Century C.E. Their once Human Chattelism were supplanted by this commodity venture. Dahomey became a major supplier of it as an atonement for their antecedent history of human enslavement with Europe.
Palm oil production
An African throwing spear
Javelin
Agriculture as a varied mode of Economy integrated the Pragmatic cultivation of the soil as made viable for the cultivars. Transhumance such as the transit of livestock to a more arable pasturage . This ensures the grazing of livestock. The life of the Agriculturists commenced since time of Antiquity. It is known by other appellation: Husbandry and Farming . The lexicon , Agriculture , etymologically emanated from Middle French and Latin , “..Agricultura ..” Its formula is ager ( field ) + culture ( cultivation ) . The Ancient African agriculture began with the inhabitants’ cultivation along the Red Sea Hill and the Ethiopian Highland. In 16,000 B.C. , they culled sedge, grasses , nuts , and tubers.
Birth of Agriculture
Wheat and Barley cultivation began around this ancient epochal era in East Africa .
10,000- 8,000 B.C.
The Nilo Saharan and Mande interstices of the Sahel and Saharan terrains cultivated a wide gamut of experimental cultivars : African Oryzza Glaberrima ( rice ) , African Sorghum , and African Millet. They imported livestock of sheep and cattle from Asia for transhumance and grazing. The Wet Phase climate ushered in the lacustrine developmental phase : lakes , streams , rivers , and brooks . Persistent rainfall prevailed. An outgrowth of the piscary class of fishermen indulged themselves with the newest technology : Bone tipped harpoon . The utility of bait and decoy enhanced the piscary trade as an occupation . What epochal era is this ?
8,000 B.C. - 6,000B.C.
The time capsule between 9,000 B.C. - 5,000B.C. was a period of 4 Millennials. Extensive Agrarianism benefited from climatic character of mutability. The Wet Phase brought in innumerable rainfalls from Senegal du jour to Cameroon du jour. The Ecological phenomena resonated with plenitude. Under the azure sky , the inhabitants of the Niger Congo speaking branch had domestication of a wide spectrum of cultivars : Raffia palm. Palm Oil , African groundnut ( voandzaia ) , castor beans , gourds , watermelon, Okra , black eyed peas , and Kola nuts. The Fellahin were trained in crop management and harvest with imaginable dexterity. Was this an Ancient West OR East African Agriculture ?
Ancient West African Agriculture
Each Epochal era of the Ancient African Agrarianism ushered in the nascent and tangible objects for essential domestication . Beginning around 7,000 B.C. , the indigenes of the Ethiopian Highlands launched the Asinine domestication. The indefatigable farmers relied upon donkey for crop management. Between 6,500 B.C. to 5,500 B.C. , the Osmotic speaking Africans of the Niger Congo family domesticated Enset . The CUSHITIC Afro Asiatic Fellahin regulated the cultivation of the Eleucine Coracana ( Finger Millet ) and Teff Cereal grains. This last agrarian pragmatism existed from 5,500 B.C. - 3,500B.C. Was this a West Or East African Ancient Agriculture ?
Ancient East African Agriculture
A peasant farmer or an Agricultural labourer in usually Arab Countries ( e.g. Egypt ). The alternative nomenclature is Fellaheen. In singular form , the lexicon is Fellah. Etymologically speaking , this word is a derivative of Arabic Fallah.
Fellahin
