Where Did Agriculture Originate Flashcards
Cultivate means
To care for
What is agriculture
Deliberate modification of earths surface through cultivation of plants an rearing animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
Crop is a
Any plant cultivatd by people
Before agriculture how did people get food
Hunting and gathering
Hunt animals Fish Gather plants Berries Nuts Roots Fruits
Hunters and gatheres lived in small groups fewer than—-people
50
Why were groups of hunters ad. Gatherers small
A large group would quickly exhaust available resources around the area
The direction and frequency of migration depends on —— and——-
Movement of game
And
Seasonal growth of plants at various locations
Today less than —-% of the world still hunt and father
.005
Where do people still hint and gather
Spinifex aka pila nguru
Australia great Victorian desert
Sentinelese peopl of the Indian a andaman island
Bushmen of Botswana and Namibia
Early center for crop domestication
Southwest Asia
Earliest domesticated crops in southwest Asia
Barley and wheat
Then, lentils and olive
How did it diffuse from sw asia
West to Europe and central Asian
How many years ago was first domestication
10,000
Where was rice domesticated
East Asia along the Yangtze
Then, millet was cultivated along yellow river
Central Africa domesticated—- 8,000 yrs ago
Sorghum
