HU 104 World Civilization
Chapter one ‘The Story of all of us MANKIND’
Agriculture
Agriculture was discovered by a coincidence of a discarded trash which carried seeds that later was discovered of a type plant which protruded from the ground the trash was thrown. The chapter mentions that it was probably a woman that threw away the trash and later discovered the miracle of the plant that grew from the seed days later. It was from this discovery that later fuel the thought of agriculture, which eventually reached many parts of the world throughout the coming years. Agriculture not only grew in size, but many advances from this trade were discovered and used not only to improve and increase the size of growing food from seeds, but it lead to other avenues of engineering. However, in any type of new discovery and advances, there are disadvantages and challenges encountered. Different tribes throughout the different countries overcame many of these challenges, but there were those that had to change their approach or relocate.
Some of the major transformations and advances explored were: the ability for seeds to reproduce into plants and food, which these fields had to be attended to in order to maintain fertility, this in turn lead to settlements and the concept of owning property, then other new technologies were developed to fulfill new needs such as storage containers and tools for processing and cultivating food. Throughout the world agriculture lead people to permanent settlements, while increasing the crop and creating food surpluses. The community of people soon discovered that they needed to be creating other things such as tools and bricks for building homes, storage such as pottery for storing food harvested, metal workers who also had specialized roles.
The advances that lead from the discovery of agriculture lead to people not going hungry and people were able to settle on a certain