GEOG 1001 Chapter : Ch 8 Notes Europe
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Origins of agriculture: first domesticated plants and animals 7,000 b. c, impacts, created surplus for trade, allowed for specialization, environmental degradation, rampant population growth. Cultural hearth: a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to many cultures, early cultural hearth included the middle east, southeast asia, Middle africa, northern south america near the andes, and part of middle america. The fertile crescent is the technical term for the middle eastern cultural hearth and was a main site of the beginnings of plan and animal domestication (wheat, barley, etc. ) The steady food supply allowed for the emergence of cities. Europe (a. d. 600-present; fall of the roman empire: no urban centers (at the time) especially in england and germany, villages owned by lords, monasteries and religious orders. Anywhere between 25-50 thousand acres: cultivation, animal husbandry and gathering, population soars to millions by 600 a. d. Scientific transformation- medieval agricultural revolution: heavy plow, came into europe between 8th and 10th century.
