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Ch. 4, Sec. 1 Notes – Agriculture Changes the World. The Birth of Agriculture. Around 12,000 years ago, Earth ’ s climate began to warm, plants and animals thrive Humans begin to settle around permanent food supplies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ch. 4, Sec. 1 Notes – Agriculture Changes the World
The Birth of Agriculture• Around 12,000 years
ago, Earth’s climate began to warm, plants and animals thrive
• Humans begin to settle around permanent food supplies
• Between 12,000 and 6,000 years ago (New Stone Age) people began to grow food on their own
• Agriculture is the raising of crops and animals for human use
Domestication• Domestication is the
process of training wild plants and animals to be useful to people.
• The first plants domesticated were wheat, barley, peas, and lentils
• Animals included cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs
• All of these come from the Middle East
Catal Huyuk• Located in Southern
Turkey, Catal Huyuk is one of the world’s oldest cities
• 8,500 years old• Once housed over
5,000 people• Plaster homes built
close for protection• Religion focused on
the success of domestic crops, animals
Surplus!• A surplus is an
extra supply of something
• Having an extra supply of food meant that people could not farm and concentrate on other work
• Specialization is training people to do particular kinds of work
Specialization leads to trade• Because of agriculture,
people could now specialize and learn to make special goods and services
• Ex. People in Catal Huyuk learned how to melt and form copper into shapes such as beads, rings, or pins
• These goods and services attracted people to trade, or exchange goods, for goods that they wanted
These changes in community life marked the beginning of a new civilization, or a new culture that has developed systems of
specialization, religion, learning, government etc.
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