Agriculture, the raising of domesticated plants and animals, changed forever the societies that practiced it. Agriculture provided a reliable food source. Food production increased as people invented tools, such as the plow, and came up with refinements, such as domesticating cattle to pull plows and collecting water for crops. Agriculture made more food available, but it also made living conditions more difficult in some ways. Instead of finding deaths due to starvation and disease when drought and insect attacks killed crops and livestock. there were also deaths due to wars when people fought to protect farmland or to take land away from others.
Questions:
1. What new way of getting food changed societies forever?
2. How did early people become producers? how did this change affect early societies?
3. Why did ancient societies based on agriculture feel a need ro control land while hunter-gatherer societies did not?
References:
Boehm, Richard, and Claudia Hoone.
Our World's Story. 1. New York, Toronto, London: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. 38. Print.
Clay, Charles. "Farming Tools in the Stone Age." (2011): 1. Print.,
http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_8439240_farming-tools-stone-age.html
1) Agriculture changed the way that societies of early people survived from the original methods of hunting and gathering.
ReplyDelete1) Agriculture created competition between people. As resources were thought of as "scarce" people began to fight each other in order to have food.
ReplyDelete2) With the invention of tools, people started to produce more. They used those tools to collect water and pull plows.
3)Hunters and gatherers relied on deaths of animals and when the were no longer animals to hunt they would move to other locations. As agriculture came along people no longer had to move and travel , they however needed to take care and protect their own land and their own crops.