AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY – UNIT 2 Textbook – Chapter 11

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ? UNIT 2 Textbook ? Chapter 11

Agriculture

? The purposeful tending of crops and raising of livestock in order to produce food and fiber.

Hunting and Gathering

? Before agriculture humans were nomadic hunters and gatherers

? Unable to stay in any one place for a long period

? Had to be constantly moving to the next food source

The Origins of Agriculture

According to Carl Sauer the leap from hunting and gathering evolved over thousands of years, in various places, as humans constantly touched and handled plants when gathering food.

Vegetative Agriculture: Saur believes that humans first learned how to grow plants by simply cutting off a stem and planting it or dividing up the roots of a plant.

Seed Agriculture

Seed Agriculture is farming through planting seeds rather than simply planting a part of the parent plant Leads to higher crop yields The use of seed agriculture would kick off the First Agricultural Revolution

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