Agriculture

What is agriculture?

• The study of animals
  

• The intentional cultivation of plants and animals

Where did farming first begin?

• The Middle East
  

• Europe

What did the yearly floods of rivers provide?

• Fish
  

• Water and silt

What is silt?

• A type of fish
  

• A natural fertilizer

Who did most of the labor in early agriculture?

• Animals

• Families

What major advancement helped make planting easier?

• The combine harvester

• The plow

How did farming change in the 19th and 20th centuries?

• There was a rise in mechanization

• It was done only by hand

What could farmers use to pull the plow?

• Oxen and other animals

• Machines

How did agriculture affect human population growth?

• It permitted unprecedented growth
  

• It only affected animals

What type of societies developed along major river systems?

• Early civilizations
  

• Mountain tribes