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Ch.1 Agriculture


               The rest of this chapter talks about how agriculture seriously advanced human development. Agriculture started about 12,000 years ago, and Agriculture refers to the cultivation of particular plants. Humans began to be able to chose what plants they wanted more of. What was cool to me was that Slayer said humans were  directing the process of human evolution. We definitely changed nature to fot our wants and need and that also had a hige effect on the environment and animals around where humans were settled.

              Another thing that was surprising was that there used to be no Sahara Desert. It used to be hospitable to humans and they lived there! We also relied heavily on animals. We needed Llama and Alpacas for food and the pull things and sheep, goat, pig, cattle for food.

             The human population after the agriculture revolution was absolutely insane: 6mil to 250 mil because we were able to produce more food. That is insane. But, the bad thing was that farming had a negative effect on people because it shortened their life spans because of the strenuous work. Humans also became subjected to animal borne disease because of farming.

           Somthing that came up again was how equal women were to men. They could farm, they could ride horses alongside men in battle, and men left home to live with the wives family!

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