1. Agricultural Revolution or Transformation?

2. Why Change?
Most evidence suggests that hunters-gatherers resisted agriculture as long as they could.
Why?

3. The Agricultural Revolution
(8000BCE-3500BCE)
Humans begin to slowly domesticate plant and animal stocks in Southwest Asia.
Agriculture requires nomadic peoples to become sedentary.
Populations begin to rise in areas where plant and animal domestication occurred.

4. Development and Spread of Agriculture
Farming developed first in the Middle East, in an arc of territory running from present-day Turkey to Iraq and Israel (Fertile Crescent)
Barley and wild wheat were abundant

5. Development and Spread of Agriculture
Farming then spread to parts of India, north Africa, and Europe.
Agriculture spread much later to Africa.
Agriculture was invented separately in the Americas much later (around 5000 B.C.E.)
Followed by Southeast Asia and Japan
And then Central Asia

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7. The invention of Agriculture changed the way people lived.
Agriculture (Farming)
Growth of Cities (permanent settlements)
Division of Labor (Specialization)
Trade
Writing and Mathematics