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9405228960	agriculture	growing plants and animals for economic gain	0
9405231841	terrace farming	steps into the side of a hill	1
9405256660	First AG revolution	17th century dev. of seed agriculture	2
9405263674	hunter-gatherers	early humans who hunted	3
9405273086	vegetative planting	process of cutting off stems and regrowing plant	4
9405281849	Second AG Revolution	shortly after enclosure movement new tech. crop rotation	5
9405287781	500 CE	roman empire falls and farming grows into a village system	6
9405291529	village system	used during middle ages clustered to keep others out	7
9405296114	1500	columbian exchange spreads plants and animals across the world	8
9405300156	enclosure movement	1700 "commons" become fenced off into individual farms	9
9405308837	Third AG Rev.	1960 globalization led to industrialized farming	10
9405328934	agribusiness	companies control dec. and selling of food to consumers	11
9405335236	dietary energy	amount of food consumed	12
9405337344	calorie intake	1800 calories a day	13
9405340059	pastoralism	form of sub. farming	14
9405344289	transhumance	movement of animals to cooler place in the summer	15
9405404350	intensive	cultivate very small amount to eat	16
9405406544	extensive	large amount to eat with machinery (still just for fam)	17
9405411295	double cropping	2 harvest in 1 year per field	18
9405415407	intercropping	2 or more crops in same field to add nitrogen to soil	19
9405420791	crop rotation	crop is rotated in same field	20
9405429385	chemical farming	fertilizers to enchance soil	21
9405432249	truck farming	market gardening	22
9405437754	milkshed	distance milk can be delivered	23
9405442471	commercial ranching	raising animals on plot of land they graze	24