HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sweet Potato, The Columbian Exchange, Social Stratification
Document Summary
8million square kilometers of the earth surface was for agriculture (pasture/crop land) Domestication: process by which the population of animals and plants are subject to human control (usually because of their value as commodities) The spread of agriculture went from 11,000 4000 bce in different parts of the world (therefore they emerged in different places in different times > there is no singular starting point) They developed by chance as the places where agriculture started/began was where the plants were most easily located/domesticated > e. g. south west. North and south china: 9000 years ago, farmers domesticated rice, millet (cereal grain), soybeans, pigs, chicken, water buffalo. South east asia: 5000 7000 years ago, domestication of taro, yams, citrus fruits, bananas, eggs, chickens occurred. Africa: where domestication of cattle, millet was produced. One point to note is that there were not a lot of living animals domesticated during this time of emergence.
