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Definitions
The
wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and
settlement.
Nutrient rich sediment deposited after the flooding of rivers.
An area of land drained by a river and it’s branches.
The process of taming an animal and keeping as a pet or on a farm
.
The
science of breeding, feeding and tending to domesticated animals especially farm animalsSlide2
What is the Neolithic Revolution
?
Transition from Hunting & Gathering to Agriculture Settlement
Characterized by the growing of cereal grains and other domesticated crops and domesticated animals.Slide3
Agriculture Vs. Hunting & Gathering
Domestication of plants
Selective breeding of cereal grasses e.g. barley
Why switch to grains?Beer! Beer has advantages (beyond the intoxicating effects and taste) high B vitamin content, essential amino acid lysine and it was safer to drink than water as the brewing process killed off bacteria and viruses.Slide4
What made it possible to grow cereal grains?Slide5
Flooding & Silt
The rivers that all early
civilizations
developed around flooded.This was important because the flooding brought a nutrient rich soil called silt.Because of silt crops grew really well…
really really well…like crazy good…like so good it would blow your mind how well these crops were growing…Slide6
So why did flooding occur and where did all that sweet sweet silt come from?
Two words
…
River BasinsA river basin is the area of land drained by a river and it’s branchesSlide7
Tigris, Euphrates, & IndusSlide8
Yellow & YangtzeSlide9
Animal Domestication
What is Domestication
?
The process of taming an animal and keeping as a pet or on a farm.Animals that were domesticated Canis Lupus Familiaris (Dogs)
13,000 BCEUsed for huntingSlide10
Goats
Used for fiber, meat, milk, leather.
10,000 BCESlide11
Sheep
Used for fiber (wool) and meat (mutton) & milk.
9,000 – 8,500 BCESlide12
Pigs
Used for meat and leather.
9,000 BCESlide13
Cattle
Used for meat, milk, leather & hides, plowing & transportation.
8,000 BCESlide14
Donkey
Used for transportation, plowing, meat
5,000Slide15
Water Buffalo
Used for plowing, transportation, meat.
4,000 BCESlide16
Dromedary Camel
Used for transportation, plowing, milk, & meat.
4,000 BCESlide17
Horse
Used for transportation, milk, meat, & plowing.
3,500 BCESlide18
Yak
Used for milk, transportation, plowing, & meat
2,500 BCESlide19
Bactrian Camel
Used for milk, transportation, plowing, meat, & fiber.
2,500 BCESlide20
Llama & Alpaca
Used for transportation, pack animal, fiber & meat.
2,400 BCESlide21
Man modifies beasts
Domestication of animals for animal husbandry (the science of breeding, feeding and tending to domesticated animals especially farm
animals).
Animal husbandry involves selecting for desirable traits e.g. size, temperament, growth rate, etc.Slide22
These changes took place over millennia.
changing
the environment to provide space for
fields and grazing
Man modifies the environmentSlide23
Advantages to Cities and Agriculture
Introduction to Trade
Time to invent machines and other tools
Larger populationExposure to ideasSpecialization of laborSlide24
Disadvantages to Cities and Agriculture
Crime
Disease
PatriarchyFree-ridingWar