History of Agriculture/Modern Agriculture

Question 1

Agricultural Hubs

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent, Central China, Mesoamerica, South American Highlands, Western Africa, Eastern North America, and New Guinea

Question 2

How did agriculture affect life?

Answer 2

Job specialization, children became an asset in the farms, focus on monogamous marriage to virgin women and an increase private property and population

Question 3

Improvements in agriculture

Answer 3

use of animals for work, three field crop rotation, guano, inorganic fertilizers, industrial revolution, refrigeration, and pesticides

Question 4

Then vs. Now: How work is done

Answer 4

people and animals to big machines

Question 5

Then vs. Now: Planting patterns

Answer 5

monoculture to polyculture

Question 6

Then vs. Now: Nutrient source

Answer 6

organic to inorganic fertilizers

Question 7

Then vs. Now: Control of pests

Answer 7

physical control to pesticides

Question 8

Then vs. Now: Water source

Answer 8

irrigation from surface water to irrigation from aquifers

Question 9

Green revolution changes

Answer 9

High yield and disease resistant crops and industrial agriculture developments that were spread from first to third world countries