Unit 5 11-21 Flashcards
Ranching
The business of raising livestock (cattle, sheep)
Rural settlement patterns
Clustered, dispersed, linear
Long-lost survey system
- divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from river, roads, or canals giving each household equal access to water resources
- reflects a particular approach to surveying that was common with French areas in America
Township and range survey system
- rectangular survey system used by the U.S. federal government to divide the land into a grid like pattern
- designed by Thomas Jefferson to facilitate the dispersal of settlers evenly across the farms lands of the US interior
Metes and bounds survey system
- survey of irregularly shaped tracts of land (does not conform to rectangular systems of surveys)
- relies on descriptions of land ownership in reference to natural features such as streams, hills, trees, etc. that was common in English areas in America
Early hearts of domestication of plants and animals
- southwest Asia (fertile crescent)
- Indus River valley (India)
- Southeast Asia
- Central America (mesoamerica)
Fertile Crescent
hearth of early agriculture and early civilization most credited with southwest Asia
First agricultural revolution
Dating back 10,000 years when humans achieved plant and animal domestication
Colombian exchange
Facilitated the global diffusion of plants, animals, diseases, human population, culture, technology, and ideas
Globalization of agriculture
Improvements in transportation and communication technologies create a variety of goods offered year-round when they were traditionally only available seasonally
Second agricultural revolution
Improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of food that started in the Middle Ages and then benefited from the industrial revolution with the use of machines and new technologies
