HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carucate, Quipu, Niger River

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 130
• Professor: Luke Clossey

Document Summary

4 subsistence zones: hunter-gatherers (australia, kalahari desert, northern polar regions, patagonia, pastoralists (north asia, north africa + east africa, arabian peninsula (interior), Northern scandinavia: cultivators (hand) (central africa, congo river, most of south america, mekong basin, Madagascar, new guinea: cultivators (plough) (europe, northern africa, coast of arabian peninsula, iraq, iran, Pastoralists : 10000 bc > nomadic, about one person per square km (west sahara), of the planet, 14%, :|, grasses gone and soil exposed, fire, domesticated animals. Canada, or population of bc), of the planet, 7%, :|, fire, domesticated animals, work in a physical sense intensifies, at the cost of biodiversity plummeting, biomass collapses, usefulness to us increases. *percentages are for amount of the world"s population, x(, fire, domesticated animals, mills (water, wind), guns, aqueducts, ploughs (gap), work in a physical sense intensifies, at the cost of biodiversity plummeting, biomass collapses, usefulness to us increases. Global ploughlands: 4 zones: far-west periphery (west europe) > smallest, near-west periphery >second smallest.