Uses of animals: Food (meat, milk), transportation,
military use, work (plowing) and clothing (wool, hides)
Consequences of Agriculture:
Food surpluses, food storage
Permanent settlements (villages) around fields
Support larger populations
Within a few generations, wheat farmers were on the march, displacing
and overwhelming hunter-gatherers as they went, and bringing with them their
distinct Indo-European language, of which Sanskrit and Irish are both
descendants.
Allow division of labor and stratified societies, later political organization
Writing developed as an accounting measure used in trade, taxes, and
warehousing
Wherever they went, the farmers brought their habits: not just sowing,
reaping and threshing, but baking, fermenting, owning, hoarding.
Domesticated
Plants
maygrass, barley, knotweed, goosefoot
Animal Domestication
Mesopotamia (Crete), India
Mesopotamia, China, North America
Uses of animals: Food (meat, milk), transportation, military use, work (plowing) and
clothing (wool, hides)
Consquences:
Populations with domesticated animals developed immunity earlier to
epidemic diseases which had spread from animals to humans (measles,
tuberculosis, smallpox, flu, pertussis, malaria)
Larger populations supported due to improvement in agriculture
Increased long-distance trade and travel
Increased military power
Eurasia Africa America Australia
Candidates 72
51 24 1
Domesticated Species 13
0
1 0
% of candidates 18%
0% 4% 0%
Animal with related pathogen
Consequences of Agriculture:
Food surpluses, food storage
Permanent settlements (villages) around fields
Support larger populations
Within a few generations, wheat farmers were on the march, displacing
and overwhelming hunter-gatherers as they went, and bringing with them their
distinct Indo-European language, of which Sanskrit and Irish are both
descendants.
Allow division of labor and stratified societies, later political organization
Writing developed as an accounting measure used in trade, taxes, and
warehousing
Wherever they went, the farmers brought their habits: not just sowing,
reaping and threshing, but baking, fermenting, owning, hoarding.
Domesticated
Plants
maygrass, barley, knotweed, goosefoot
Animal Domestication
Mesopotamia (Crete), India
Mesopotamia, China, North America
Uses of animals: Food (meat, milk), transportation, military use, work (plowing) and
clothing (wool, hides)
Consquences:
Populations with domesticated animals developed immunity earlier to
epidemic diseases which had spread from animals to humans (measles,
tuberculosis, smallpox, flu, pertussis, malaria)
Larger populations supported due to improvement in agriculture
Increased long-distance trade and travel
Increased military power
Eurasia Africa America Australia
Candidates 72
51 24 1
Domesticated Species 13
0
1 0
% of candidates 18%
0% 4% 0%
Animal with related pathogen
Old Babylonian Empire
Hammurabis Code