Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1101 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Agriculture's Independent Origins
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The idea
Agriculture modifies the Earth's surface by cultivating crops and raising livestock, for sustenance and profit. It was the key to sedentary civilization, domesticating plants and animals and creating surpluses, and it began independently in the Old World and the New.
In practice
Hunting and gathering came before.
Where people slip
Finlayson: rice on the Yangtze about sixty-five hundred BCE.
Your place on the trail
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