Before and Beyond the Origin of Agriculture

AP Human Geography

Rural and Urban Land Use Unit

For today, 03/25•Pick up a 10.2 Reading Guide All you can use on the Reading Quiz on 04/08 will be these Reading Guides

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Hunting and Gathering• Only way to acquire food for most of our existence (like 99% )

• Population of groups were small (20ish - 40ish)

• Settlements were not permanent

• Development of gender roles

• Very few exist today

Bushmen of the Kalahari

Agriculture• Deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain

• Invented around 10,000 – 14,000 years ago

• Invented twice: Vegetative vs. Seed Name drop Carl Sauer

Vegetative Planting: Origin and Diffusion

Seed Agriculture: Origin and Diffusion

Agricultural Hearth Analysis

Why does a relationship

between cultural

hearths and agricultural

hearths exist?

Using Socrative.com, room 262479

Guns, Germs, & Steel video clip

Fertile Crescent: Origin of Civilization

• Due to seed selection, plants got bigger over time - selective breeding

• Generated a surplus of wheat and barley – allowed people to stay in one place for a prolonged period

• First integration of plant growing and animal raising – crops feed livestock, livestock help in growing crops

Your Assignment•Chapter 10, Key Issue 2 Reading Guide: Where are agricultural regions in less developed countries?

•Unit Exam: Friday, 04/10

•Vocab and Map Exam AND RQ: Wednesday, 04/08