Agricultural Era

AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL ERAERA

Presented By-Akila Maduranga

Saman Kithsiri

What is the agricultural ?What is the agricultural ?

Agriculture is the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.

What is the agricultural era ?

STEP BEFORE THE AGRICULTURAL ERASTEP BEFORE THE AGRICULTURAL ERA

AGRICULTUR IN PREHISTORIC ERA

Man learnt Agricultural era 10,000 years ago. The first cultivation took place in the middle east. Nomadic hunter became cultivators and settled in the early villages. Side by side with agriculture , man learnt villages. Side by side with agriculture , man learnt domestication of animals, pottery, grinding of grains and

weaving of clothes.

PREHISTORIC ERA

AGRICULTURAL ERA

Six pillars in Agricultural eraSix pillars in Agricultural era

�� SoilSoil

�� WaterWater

�� ClimateClimate

�� SeedsSeeds

�� ToolsTools

�� PeasantsPeasants

Sources of wealth in Agricultural eraSources of wealth in Agricultural era

�� Labor Labor

�� Hands Hands

�� Knowledge Knowledge

�� Heads Heads

�� Capital: Money & Machines Capital: Money & Machines

�� Land & Resources Land & Resources

The end of the Agricultural eraThe end of the Agricultural era

� Later, people invent many machines using their technology. After 11,000 years, middle in the 18th century Industrial evolution began in

AGRICULTURAL ERA

INDUSTRIAL ERA

Britain .Then the Agricultural era ended.Agricultural era ended.

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