Ways of the World Notes Chapter 2
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Chapter 2: First Farmers ? The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000?3000 B.C.E. I. The Agricultural Revolution in World History began at around 12,000 years ago Agricultural Revolution: deliberate cultivation of particular plants as well as the taming and breeding of particular animals provided foundation for all that followed a new relationship between humankind, other organisms, and nature mutual dependence & ?intensification? II. Comparing Agricultural Beginnings A. Common Patterns 1. Separate, independent, and almost simultaneous between 12,000 and 4,000 years ago 2. Climate change coincided with the end of the last Ice Age and the migration of Homo sapiens across the planet various species hunted to extinction added pressure
