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Agricultural Revolution
15000 Years Ago
• How did we get here?
• And how, if I earned minimum wage could earn enough to buy this after 11 minutes of work?
To find out we got to the $.99 cheeseburger we have to look to
prehistory • What is History and when
did it start?• 15000 yrs ago mankind
was hunter & gatherers • These people, from
archaeological evidence, were healthier than those after farming was invented.
• Hunter/gatherers also spent less time working
Agriculture sprang up independently all over the world
So, agriculture must have been better to abandon free time, right?
Advantages• Less chance of starvation• Food surplus = Cities and
specialization• Cities and Specialization =
– More inventions– Able to produce more food– Which leads us to the $.99
cheeseburger
• Can be practiced all over the world
Disadvantages• Radically change the
environment to farm. (more work)
• Farming is hard work so it often causes one group to subjugate another group into forced labor
• Larger societies create larger and more devastating war
• Famine
Herders – keeper of animalsmust keep moving their animals in search of grazing
Advantage• 1st – you get to be a
cowboy!• Animals provide meat and
milk• Provide clothing and other
useful things like leather
Disadvantage• Requires a lot of food to
produce food• Hard to make cities because
of constant moving – Unless you are the Mongols
• Very few animals can be tamed
So why did agriculture happen?
• No one really knows because it happened in pre-history.
• Possible reasons– More people meant need more food– Leisure time created experimentation– Fertility rituals– Or people needed more grain to make more
alcohol– Perhaps, people just wanted more to eat