Breakthroughs to Agriculture:
Common Patterns
It is said that the Agricultural Revolution coincided with the end of the last Ice Age. The migration of Homo sapiens also started which created new conditions across certain areas making agriculture easier and more possible. With global warming creating more wetter and warmer conditions it allowed plants to flourish and grow providing different types of food. Humans went through what was called a "food crisis" this motivated and help make a push for new technology to create ways to increase food supply.
Variations
This section of the book is talking about how different regions/places on Earth were able to grow different types of foods. This makes me think about how different types of foods are known for being in different types of cultures.
Triumph and Resistance
The book states that the globalization of agriculture was a very long process. It is said that it took up to 10,000 years or more to take place everywhere. By the beginning of the Common Era, the number of gathering and hunting people was reduced by agricultural change. Farmers and herders created the future of food and plantation after the Agricultural Revolution.
The Culture of Agriculture
The culture of agriculture changed the ways of the world because it was the beginning of the human dominance over all other life forms. Why was this? The dominance came about because of the major environmental transformations. What's interesting is that farming became much more intense which actually caused a lot more health problems for people. This exposed humans to more diseases and deterioration health issues. Around 5400 B.C.E. was when the alcoholic beverages made a breakthrough. This was both a gift and a blessing.
Pastoral Societies
Women's work was beyond essential for the pastoral communities. Women's work involved milking, processing the milk, and producing textiles which was widely used in Central Asia for things like tents, beds, rugs, and clothing. In other pastoral societies such as archeological sites around the Black Sea women were known for having very high status. Women would wear armor use swords and daggers and be involved in the same types of activity as men. In other areas such as China women would play a big role involving religion.
Agricultural Village Societies
Catalhuyuk was a very early agricultural village in southern Turkey. The population flourished in 7400 and 6000 B.C.E. The people who lived in this village maintained a certain type of social order. One of the things they were known for was during their dead under their houses and then filling the houses with dirt to build a new one on top, going layer upon layer.
Chiefdoms
The last type of agricultural village society talked about in the book was chiefdoms. The chiefdoms was what the society would consider their organized political views, in which the inherited positions of power and privileged was introduced and taken more seriously. Chiefs relied on their generosity/gift of giving, ritual status, or their personal charisma to persuade their followers, very different then the powers of those who we know as kings.
What I took away from reading the last part of the chapter was that without the Agricultural Revolution their would be no humans (Homo sapiens). Our world is created because of the environment and we (humans) are who we are because of the changes in our environment over time. This was very interesting to me and I look forward to diving into more reasons why history and our world is the way it is.
Common Patterns
It is said that the Agricultural Revolution coincided with the end of the last Ice Age. The migration of Homo sapiens also started which created new conditions across certain areas making agriculture easier and more possible. With global warming creating more wetter and warmer conditions it allowed plants to flourish and grow providing different types of food. Humans went through what was called a "food crisis" this motivated and help make a push for new technology to create ways to increase food supply.
Variations
This section of the book is talking about how different regions/places on Earth were able to grow different types of foods. This makes me think about how different types of foods are known for being in different types of cultures.
Triumph and Resistance
The book states that the globalization of agriculture was a very long process. It is said that it took up to 10,000 years or more to take place everywhere. By the beginning of the Common Era, the number of gathering and hunting people was reduced by agricultural change. Farmers and herders created the future of food and plantation after the Agricultural Revolution.
The Culture of Agriculture
The culture of agriculture changed the ways of the world because it was the beginning of the human dominance over all other life forms. Why was this? The dominance came about because of the major environmental transformations. What's interesting is that farming became much more intense which actually caused a lot more health problems for people. This exposed humans to more diseases and deterioration health issues. Around 5400 B.C.E. was when the alcoholic beverages made a breakthrough. This was both a gift and a blessing.
Pastoral Societies
Women's work was beyond essential for the pastoral communities. Women's work involved milking, processing the milk, and producing textiles which was widely used in Central Asia for things like tents, beds, rugs, and clothing. In other pastoral societies such as archeological sites around the Black Sea women were known for having very high status. Women would wear armor use swords and daggers and be involved in the same types of activity as men. In other areas such as China women would play a big role involving religion.
Agricultural Village Societies
Catalhuyuk was a very early agricultural village in southern Turkey. The population flourished in 7400 and 6000 B.C.E. The people who lived in this village maintained a certain type of social order. One of the things they were known for was during their dead under their houses and then filling the houses with dirt to build a new one on top, going layer upon layer.
Chiefdoms
The last type of agricultural village society talked about in the book was chiefdoms. The chiefdoms was what the society would consider their organized political views, in which the inherited positions of power and privileged was introduced and taken more seriously. Chiefs relied on their generosity/gift of giving, ritual status, or their personal charisma to persuade their followers, very different then the powers of those who we know as kings.
What I took away from reading the last part of the chapter was that without the Agricultural Revolution their would be no humans (Homo sapiens). Our world is created because of the environment and we (humans) are who we are because of the changes in our environment over time. This was very interesting to me and I look forward to diving into more reasons why history and our world is the way it is.
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