Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Agricultural Revolution

Agricultural Revolution was important to the development of cities. The most change happened during the Neolithic Age. People were staying in one general area to farm and herd animals. Society was changing and becoming more of an group and city rather than a hunter-gather. Cities started to develop because people had to stay in a general area to grow and maintain there food and crops.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2054675


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Agriculture. Because of society, imagine if we no longer had agriculture. That includes farms, animals, resources. Society collapsed. The human population would slowly but surely fall. Without agriculture, human have no food, no jobs, no money. Human need this delicate source of income. Technology could definitely take agriculture down. One mistake could ruin everything. Humans would no longer have a sense of purpose because without farms we do not have food. We would lose grocery stores, farmers markets, any place were people find food.
Food is not the only thing that come out of agriculture. Humans would lose certain materials for clothes and homes. Jobs would be lost. Trading and selling between countries would not happen. The world would be in complete shambles. Technology could cause the end of this but it could also save it. If someone could come up with the idea

Source

BBC - h2g2 - The Neolithic Revolution . (n.d.). BBC - Homepage. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2054675

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