I.S 8 reviewer Flashcards
What can food tells us about the past?
Nutrition, Technology and social class
Foraging
until approximately 12,000 years ago , wild vegetarian
Hunting
Large animals, tools (weapons fire)
Herding
exploitation , animal domestication
Farming
plant domestication
Energy
the power or strength needed to sustain
First Energy Transition
Animals and fire for other uses
‘slash-and-burn’
second energy transition,
Waterwheels, windmills, and more
third energy transition
coal , steam engine, biomass fuel
Fourth energy transition
Electricity and petroleum
Fifth energy
Nuclear energy
50 megaton tsar bomb
Detonated in 1961
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All societies begin with basic need for___
Food
Energy
power or strength
How energy related to global history
Increased complexity
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
1945
chernobyl
1986
The___grows depending on how much they one fed
society
Migration and population
movement from one country and place or locality to another
Belief in afterlife
they were survived beyond death
Shamanism
Bridge between earthly word and spirit world
Ancestor worship
dead relatives remained active in the spiritual realm
High gods
all powerful creator deities
spirit gods participating in human rights
Influenced by either prayer of sacrifice