GGR107H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Northern Canada, Melilotus, Chenopodium
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Agriculture of farming is the rearing of animals and the production of crop plants through cultivating the soil. It is the interaction of people and the environment, which has evolved over a period of 10,000 years. Sheep, pigs, goats, cattle, barley, and wheat were the first to be domesticated followed by six other independent origins of agriculture. East asia: rice, millet, pigs, chicken, and buffalo. Central america & south america: potato, maize, beans, squash, llama, alpaca, and guinea pigs. Africa: cattle, pigs, rice millet and sorghum. The domestication of plants and animals spread from the near-east to the south-eastern europe where cultivation improved and trading networks supported the greek and roman empires. Term agriculture is derived from both greek and latin origin which mean field and symbolized the integral link between land-based production and modification of the natural environment. The modification of land has produced the agri-ecosystem in which an ecological system is overlain by socio-economic elements and processes.
