{"id":122,"date":"2024-11-30T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencegonnagetyou.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2024-11-30T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T06:23:01","slug":"8-revolutionary-changes-from-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencegonnagetyou.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/8-revolutionary-changes-from-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Revolutionary Changes from Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Agriculture is such a given piece of human civilization, many people struggle to distinguish farmland from wilderness. With grocery stores and restaurants on every corner, we take the availability of food for granted in our 21st Century America. But if we enter this conversation from the perspective of the Earliest people from the previous lesson, we can see just how transformative a consistent managed food source was for humanity, and SCIENCE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did farming change everything about human’s lives? Keep scrolling to find out…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salado Native American farm plot at Walnut Canyon National Monument.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1. Nomadic life ended and people became stationary<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Just as traveling to various locations throughout the year set the stage for everything about early peoples’ culture, intentionally planting seeds meant people had to stay put to care for them. After discovering discarded seeds sprouted in rubbish piles, ancestral farmers soon realized crops needed water and protection from animals and other tribes. This fundamental shift to a stationary existence had a cascading impact on every facet of human life in every corner of the planet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Irrigation canals dug by hand provided water to crops that were protected by fences.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

2. Permanent structures with city planning<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Now that people were staying put to care for their crops, they put more time into building structures and planning city layouts like roads and markets as well as marking off property using fences. Putting this much effort into permeance shifted people’s mindsets about land to ownership and thus nomadic people became very territorial about the food they were growing and cities they had built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Large structures with planned layouts became common when people stayed put to tend crops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

3. People began specializing in different tasks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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While members within tribes of the earliest people would have excelled at and helped each other with different things (ie. weaving shoes or tanning hides), all people participated in most tasks to some extent. But as cities grew, there were simply too many tasks to everyone to participate in equally. So people began focusing on their specialties and “trading” time or goods with other members for mutual survival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Protective walls around cities needed to be patrolled and maintained.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Someone has to fix this roof after a hurricane.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For example, a farmer out tending field daily didn’t have time to mend their roof, make new shoes, patrol the city wall at night and bake bread every day. So the farmer contributed grain to the city stock piles to pay the night guards, traded grain with the baker for fresh loaves and paid the roofer in grain to repair their roof after a storm. Children learned the trades of their families and were super proficient by teen years to begin their careers too!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Large ceremonial sites like Chacchoben Mayan Temples required agriculture to feed the trades people who built them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Keeping track all the names in ballooning populations was difficult, so secondary names were added that often denoted occupations (ie. Jim Baker, Jim Brewer, Jim Farmer, etc), locations (Jim Hill, Jim Lake) or characteristics (Jim Brown, Jim Little). What does your last name mean?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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