(Cont'd from my previous post) "...But after harvesting all that wheat, they'd need a place to put it. They could no longer maintain a nomadic lifestyle, since they'd need to stay close to their wheat." Also, on why agriculture developed (in the Middle East), the Kottack textbook says that "Early cultivation began as an attempt to copy, in a less favorable environment, the dense stands of wheat and barley that grew wild in the Hilly Flanks" (cont'd)
@Dryltd
13 жыл бұрын
Thanks kahn. You reminded me about how much we don't know of our past. 11000 years. And we still heat water to get power
@Inkognitohaloramics
13 жыл бұрын
This is a great video, but I think Khan left out (whether purposely or accidentally) a huge reason why agriculture was important. Settling down with a steady supply of food meant that we no longer had to base our lives around finding food, instead now we had more free time, which allowed us to develop special skills.
@Acerola211
13 жыл бұрын
(Cont'd from previous post) I think my professor talked about how the "dense" population lead to more disease, and how now these farmers had to work for life, and people organizing the farmers became richer so social and gender inequality was born, though I might not be remembering my lectures correctly.
@slapcompany
13 жыл бұрын
Success for Managers is: Respect. To be paid to think, not just to comply. To be trusted.
@ashelylittle9989
7 жыл бұрын
Great video. Explains a lot that i have never considered.
@azaz129
13 жыл бұрын
A wonderful book on the development and the reason of differences in development of civilizations is Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies"
@OnAFirefly
13 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. World history is fun.
@HiroshiT34
11 жыл бұрын
Never posted on Khan Academy before but if you plot human saccharomyces cerevisiae on with human expansion you will see they correlate and the reason for that is that brewing microbes from water, so alcohol is one of our important discoveries. Still though no doubt Agriculture is the most important aspect of human history and future.
@Acerola211
13 жыл бұрын
Hmm, I learned in my Anthropology 101 class that the first sedentary people (in the Middle East, at least) were not food producers (ex. farmers), but gatherers - Kottack's 13th edition Anthropology textbook says "Even today, wild wheats grows so densely in the Hilly Flanks that one person working just an hour with Neolithic tools can easily harvest a kilogram of wheat (Harlan and Zohary 1966). People would have had no reason to invent cultivation when wild grain was ample to feed them."
@Acerola211
13 жыл бұрын
@christerryatl Well, I think we can all agree that agriculture made humanity the way it is today. There's definitely a lot of positive outcomes, but I do agree that there are some negative outcomes, as well. I think it's good to be grounded in reality.
@Crissix100
13 жыл бұрын
@BitterBurst Blue-rare steak is delicious, and when I was really into weight training I used to shoot raw eggs, but that tasted disgusting. That said, it can be pretty hard to beat a charbroiled burger with the right seasoning.
@armpitpuncher
13 жыл бұрын
@EdgeRetro Evolution is not a ladder. It is a tree, and we are but a twig.
@MacBjorn
13 жыл бұрын
Thanks khan
@zippyman28
13 жыл бұрын
looks like the beginning of a new series of videos :D
@Acerola211
13 жыл бұрын
. . . So the Kottack textbook, at least, says that agriculture didn't develop (in the Middle East) because someone suddenly got smart and figured that agriculture would lead to "civilization", rather because food gathering was no longer sufficient in the new land that these people were living in so the people had to get creative and do something different. My professor says that while agriculture had its benefits, it opened a whole can of worms that created a lot of problems, too, ha ha.
@ohinak6278
10 жыл бұрын
Love the video.
@Crissix100
13 жыл бұрын
@BitterBurst It's totally fine to eat any meat of fish raw, as long as it hasn't gone rancid, with the exception of chicken. Maybe a couple other exceptions too, but I eat my meat mostly raw and I'm healthy as a horse :)
@Acerola211
13 жыл бұрын
@Emanresu56 The textbook says, "Natufian settlements [the people who've settled due to abundant wild grains rather than because they started farming] . . . show permanent architectural features and evidence for the processing and storage of wild grains. One such site is Abu Hureyra, Syria, which was initially occupied by Natufian foragers around 11,000 to 10,500 B.P." It sounds to me that these archaeologists didn't find farming tools but permanent settlements based on wild grains in that area.
@rockYhre
13 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@Crissix100
13 жыл бұрын
@Acerola211 All that wheat could be there in part because of the agricultural efforts of ancient peoples.
@StephenDeagle
13 жыл бұрын
I wonder if in the future human time and geological time will have to be counted together?
@Emanresu56
13 жыл бұрын
@Acerola211 Thanks for the clarification. :)
@19Jackattack95
13 жыл бұрын
I was looking at the title of this video in a confused way, thinking I've been spelling agriculture wrong all these years.
@AdventureTime18
12 жыл бұрын
Noobs response. Being a hunter gatherer gives you more spare time than toiling in a field all day. Writing and scientific advancement was made by the higher classes who were free of work.
@MindofScience3
13 жыл бұрын
Stone Age -> Metallic Ages -> ???
@luka978
5 жыл бұрын
Yo greenwood kiddo here
@EdgeRetro
13 жыл бұрын
Kind of all makes you stop and think. It would be illogical to assume that homo sapiens is the final rung of the evolutionary ladder. Unless we manage to totally obliterate all life on the planet, there will likely emerge a new, smarter, more adaptive humanoid who will be amused at our limited capacities and barbaric ways.
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