Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1

Today in class we watched a video that helped us understand our lesson in our text book better. The video was called The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1. John Green is the man that  narrated the video. The video discussed the Paleolithic Age and the Agricultural  Revolution. 15,000 years ago humans went from hunting and gathering to agricultural living. In the video John Green talks about the test. The test is the test of life and everything is on it. He also talked about how now people can just go to McDonald and get a 99 cent cheeseburger. You can earn enough money to buy a cheeseburger in eleven minutes on minimum wage in the United States. He also talked  about foraging. Foraging meant gathering food .  Foragers had a pretty good life. They had good teeth,bones, and joints.Fishing was a very popular way to get most of your food back in the Paleolithic Age. That's why alot of civilizations tended to be near the coast, so they could get to the ocean life easier. As a result of the agricultural revolution the population rose rapidly. They advantages of the Agricultural Revolution is that there was a larger food supply,and  agricultural can be done anywhere.The disadvantages are it changes the environment, and it is hard work which means people started to use slavery to do the work.  Then John Green talked about animals and domestication. Most animals are not good for domestication.

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