Chapter 1
Around 12,000 years ago we saw the introduction of what we call the Agricultural Era. We saw humans lean more toward growing what they eat and breeding animals just for eating. We saw our development of "directing" nature into what we needed it to be which is more to what we see now in a more drastic form. Examples are finding a way to make corn grow a lot longer, inventing technology and methods to make farming easier, and selectively breeding animals to get the best product from them. The global warming helped lead the way to new technological advances such as the sickle in the Middle East, Amazon people learning how to cut back plants to encourage growth, and Australians building traps to capture eels. He also mentions how women played a huge role in the development and creation of our modern agriculture while men were associated with hunting. Each continent farmed and found specific foods that were crucial to their survival in their respective environments. With the invention of agriculture came the creation of bigger communities from 50 people to thousands of people. Different people had different diets and eating habits as for example people in the Americas did not have access to as much sheep, pigs and cattle they mostly consisted of fishing and had to hunt hard for their meat. But what they lacked in readily available domesticated meat they had in probably the worlds most important crop now in corn.
Around 12,000 years ago we saw the introduction of what we call the Agricultural Era. We saw humans lean more toward growing what they eat and breeding animals just for eating. We saw our development of "directing" nature into what we needed it to be which is more to what we see now in a more drastic form. Examples are finding a way to make corn grow a lot longer, inventing technology and methods to make farming easier, and selectively breeding animals to get the best product from them. The global warming helped lead the way to new technological advances such as the sickle in the Middle East, Amazon people learning how to cut back plants to encourage growth, and Australians building traps to capture eels. He also mentions how women played a huge role in the development and creation of our modern agriculture while men were associated with hunting. Each continent farmed and found specific foods that were crucial to their survival in their respective environments. With the invention of agriculture came the creation of bigger communities from 50 people to thousands of people. Different people had different diets and eating habits as for example people in the Americas did not have access to as much sheep, pigs and cattle they mostly consisted of fishing and had to hunt hard for their meat. But what they lacked in readily available domesticated meat they had in probably the worlds most important crop now in corn.
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