MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter Pages 14-28: Fertile Crescent, Neolithic, Pastoralism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Page Dubois

Document Summary

Mmw 11 reading notes from a history of world societies pages 14-28. The development of agriculture in the neolithic era, ca. Agricultural revolution: paleolithic neolithic, population growth, more labor, grew specialized. 15,000 years ago world got warmer, glaciers melted, wetter, allowed for more agriculture. Domesticated: selective breeding to serve human needs. Agriculture started in areas independently, no influence. Population and population density grew: people building homes, villages. Farmers less healthy than foragers due to limited food selection. Farming spread when great need for food or someone moved to a new area. Farmers work hard on crops, crops encourage people to be domestic. Some foraged and put crops on small plots of land. Slash and burn agriculture: burning down nature to plant crops, damages environment. First animal domesticated dog 15,000 years ago (or earlier) 9,000 bce fertile crescent domesticate goat and sheep bred animals for specific qualities (selective breeding) pigs domesticated in fertile crescent, china chickens southern asia.