2009/09/22

One Factor to the Big Question - Agricultural Revolution

Perhaps the Agricultural Revolution was one of the factors that concludes to the Big Question. The Agriculture Revolution was the period when the people of a civilization try to learn about agriculture and farming. The first actual civilization that had the Agricultural Revolution was Fertile Crescent. So they were the head-starting civilization of all. This lead to some great benefits since there were food surplus and population growth after farming, not only that, it made it able to domesticate animals by feeding the right crops for them. Also, after Agricultural Revolution, came the specialization and then came the Bronze Age. One good example of it is Europe, since they've got all they need, like guns and steels, probably because of specialization. This could have probably worked because of people had enough food needed.


For instance there were wheats which were the most used crops around the world. Wheats were the most devoted farmland crop which were seed-bearing grass. Even in the Modern day, today, it is still the widely used crops in all.
Other than the wheats there where were corns (maize) which were from the Native Americans. The corns are very famous around the Americas which are small bits of ripe cobs from a specific kind of a plant. The corn produces about the world's half of total tonnage.
Wheats and Corns
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The last one of the crops I will tell you are the rices. First of all, the rice had been domesticated in China about 10,000 years ago, which is about in the Neolithic Revolution or New Stone Age. These crops had effected us greatly for survival almost everywhere, but especially all parts of Asia. They were the seedling from the rice plant which they were relatives to wheats and wild grasses. They were used in variety of ways, but mostly as a food.
Rices

http://www.worldcommunitycookbook.org/season/guide/corn.html 

Well these crops are very beneficial to us, but the point is that, what if some people had or known agriculture, but the others don't? There probably will have some big changes in something like inequality. Now this can explain the big question on how some civilizations are more advanced than others. Lack of food, or energy could have been the affect. Before the Agricultural Revolution, people hunted for food which wasted energy for them to do something else, like specialization. Since you can't sustain food for more people, the population would have stayed constant and the civilization would also wouldn't have grew. The big thing is that if you kept going on like that, then the food will soon also start to decrease in amount since you have done nothing for the food resource reproduce or get bred.
nd so now you see that if we didn't have or knew about Agricultural Revolution all of our lives could have changed in very many ways.






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