GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Surrealism, Machine Age, Wage Labour
9 May 2016
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The period in human history when the first large scale urban settlements began to appear, together with concomitant changes in the structure and nature of societies, modes of production, and social relations of production. Argues that plant and animal domestication occurred independently in several areas of the world at about the same time in history through a process called independent invention. Independent invention: populations in different parts of the world. Invented agriculture on their own without contact from outside populations and without learning it from others. Some say ecological stress forced this agriculture change overpopulation or climate change. Culture hearths: any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants and animals: carl o. saucer"s theory. Wrote in his book agricultural origins and dispersals . Argues that agriculture first developed in southeast asia as early as. 20,000 years ago and from there diffused to the other areas of the world.
