Thursday, February 10, 2011

Essay Question

In ancient times there used to be groups of people called hunter gatherers, and they were a group that relied on the success hunters would have so they could eat that day. But that was a problem because what if the hunters couldn't kill anything that day, or even if the animals in that area ran out? They came up with an idea to have gatherers also so even if hunters don't have luck with finding food some people can go out and look for wild berry or things like that. After a while people sadly found out they will run out of resources sooner or later, and when they faced that they had to pack their bags up and move on to another place that has things they can hunt and gather. Another problem with the gathering part of hunter gatherers is that the things they gather could usually never hold up and sustain a healthy diet because of the nutrients that they lacked. And even if the plants could hold a healthy diet, there wasn't close to enough things to gather to continuously feed whole civilizations of people. 
People made the transition to these hunter gatherers to more advanced farmers because they came to realize that hunting and gathering worked on occasion but defiantly not a main food source. In an ancient area called the Fertile Crescent, it was said that the first ever group of farmers and the idea of farming started there. Instead of hoping you catch something that night so you can feed your family or gathering berry's that may or may not make you sick people decided to take advantage of planting things such as wheat, grain, and barley. The Fertile Crescent was uncovered by a Canadian architect and he found that there was a building in the civilization made just for the crops that they began planting and began to domesticate. When they started farming crops it changed everything. Civilizations didn't have to migrate so often because they didn't have to chase after their food, because they could plant it whenever they pleased. Also since they planted things now, not everyone in the civilization had to go out and hunt, so that gave more people the opportunity to become specialized workers. The beginning of specialized workers also made things better because they could build more things and begin other things.
Farming began in this "Fertile Crescent" because of they're geographical luck. They literally had everything they needed to have success in planting crops and starting farming. They had fertile soil so they could easily plant things instead of having to dig into hard rocky ground that would stop the plant from growing. They also had a great climate for planting because it wasn't too cold for the plants to live, but it wasn't too hot either so they were blessed with that and that helped them grow faster than an area like Papua New Guinea.

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