Key Issue 1

Agriculture deliberatemod ofEarth'ssurfacethroughcultivation ofplants arearing

ofanimals toobtainsustenance of gain
origin domestication of plants animals for human use
Hunters Gatherers
small groups
menhuntedfished womenpickedberries nuts roots
frequenttravel
dependedon game growthof plants
50.005 of Worldpop Still useH G
Ex Spinifex or Pila Nguru Australia'sGreatVictorianDesert Sentinelese AndamanIsland

Bushmen Botswana Namibia

Types of PlantingFarming
Vegetative reproduction ofplants by directcloningfromexistingplant exwetrice
Commercialfarming prod of foodtosell in MDGs
Mediterranean Agri exists in placeslike NAfrica MedSea landborders
W AsiaCaliforniacentralChile SWAustralia South Africa
Summers hot
dry Winters moist moderatetempstands
hilly mountains in seas
harran flat land strips along coastsmostlygrowgrapes olives
Horticulture treecrops formcommercialbase ofMed
farming
Livestock
ranching raisinganimals togainmaterial ormeat
Semiarid or arid lands in MDCs
Expandedin USbc of demandforbeef in E coast
Cattle2Chicago 30 40head cattleTX 3or 4head
CodeoftheWest
Grainfarming grain grownfor human consumption livestock consumption
Winterwheat belt in Kansas00,80K

springbelt in Dakotas MT Canada

Subsistencefarming directconsumptionforfarmers fam

shiftingcult shift activityfromonefieldto another

using a lotof effort to produce max ant onland
intensivesubsistence farmers
Wetrice plant rice on dry land in a nursery then movingseedlings to
 de go fun in S sea Chi nel
Pastoralnomadism herdingdomesticated animals in semiarid orarid
belt Central SEAsia NAfrica examplesofnomadicgroups
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Bedouins 0Saudi
NAfrica Masai EAfrica
GreenRev Invention r rapiddiffusion of better
agritech during 70 s 80s
intro to newhigheryield seeds more use offertilizers
First AgricRev allowed humans to decrease ant of movement foundother
reliable foodsources
foundouthowto plantseeds animaldomesticationtaminganimals
CARLSAUER
2nd AgricRev usedtechto 9prod distribution of products
Occurred WIndustrialRevfrom1750 1900
Eli Whitney cotton
gin in 1793
Impactof Transportation
highwaystrucks railroads
cattlearrivesheavier r inbettercondition cropsdon'tspoil
Northwest Ordinance
Statehood to IL IN MI OHWI MN
Von Thunen Model

Horticultatirying
forestry
enclosedfields

croprotation

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field
Grazing