Week 2

Chapter 1: breakthroughs to agriculture
Common pattern
As the book mentions, the Agricultural Revolution probably coincided with the end of the Ice Age.  Gather-hunterers understood better on how to do their agriculture and grew their crops in large numbers. They hunted large and small animals to eat. Different communities set out their own practices and ways to their life. This benefitted their lives because they made easier ways to do agriculture. Global warming also helped a lot by making the soil fertile so plants can flourish. There was an increase in food supply.

Variations
There was a variety of plants being grown in different regions of the Earth. Since there were many variations of food being grown in different areas, this means that each region had their own way of doing it and what they enjoy growing.

Triumph and Resistance
As people migrated, so did their practices. Their languages also spread throughout different regions as well and until the next generations. The global spread of agriculture had reduced the gathering and hunting people and created the future for food and agriculture.

The culture of agriculture
this was the start of human dominance that changed the everything in agriculture. There were diseases and health problems coming upon people in agriculture that resulted in high risks of an unhealthy lifestyle.


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