Chapter 2(start with agruculture)

 09/04/2014
Chapter two(agriculture)

• While reading i learned about agriculture. i learned about the ways it spread and the way that people helped it spread.
• There were two different ways that it spread. The first was diffusion and the other was migration and colonization.
• this also meant the spread and the movement of cultures and languages. 
• globalization of agriculture was a very long process that has lasted thousands of years.
• Some places and people that resisted agriculture was because of the harsh environments which they lived in and the harsh deserts or artic environments.
• one thing that caught my attention was that some people that lived in certain environments did not feel the need for agriculture.
• However people did see a decrease in agriculture because that was due to the fact that technology was being presented, intermarriage, disease, or through the violent displacement of people.
• As agriculture was increasing population was also increasing. They saw a very big increased in population through the agricultural revolution era.
• NOT everything was sweet with agriculture. There was a big decrease in human health and more diseases.
• People would be in contact with animals most of the time, and that would make them a target for the diseases that they carried(small pox, flu, measles, chicken pox, malaria, rabies etc.)
• One thing that i always found interesting was when they discovered that wheat, rice, and grpes were domesticated and they could be made into alcoholic beverages.
• Animals were very important in the sence that people rely on them a lot for milk, and food producing. 
• Women and men had roles, and women's roles were more involved in milking animals, processing the milk.
• A lot of societies retained much of the social and gender equality of gathering and hunting communities.
• Other village societies came to organize themselves politically in having chiefs,kings.
• Agriculture gave the opportunity for men to dominate nature, but it also gave them the power to dominate each other.