First Agricultural Revolution
Term that describes human activity prior to the discovery of farming.
What is hunter and gatherer?
The use of machines to do the work of people in the fields.
What is mechanization?
The intentional act of watering crops.
What is irrigation?
The inventor of the Seed Drill.
Who is Jethro Tull?
Earlier agricultural hearth that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is the fertile crescent?
Term used to describe the intentional planting, caring, and harvesting of crops.
What is Plant domestication?
The part of the world where the Second Industrial Revolution began.
What is England?
Man-Made chemical additives applied to crops to increase soil capabilities?
What is Synthetic Fertilizer?
A machine invented to harvest grain crops.
Trading network that connected Europe and the middle east to Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
Term that describes the taming & pasturing of wild animals for a consistent source of meat
What is Animal Domestication?
Term that refers the massive movement of people from the countryside to cities following the introduction of machines to agriculture.
What is urbanization?
Improved variations of these led to increased crop outputs.
What is high-yield seeds?
The earliest versions of these machines were steam powered and eventually replaced with gasoline power.
What is a tractor?
Part of the world where the potato originated?
What is the Andean Highlands?
Name of the trading pattern that connected Old World with New World?
What is the Columbian Exchange.
The earliest plows were made from this substance, but would later be replaced with steel.
What is Cast Iron?
The parts of the world where the Green Revolution has the biggest impact.
What are less developed countries?
This is the handheld tool used to cut wheat crops that the mechanical reaper replaced.
What is the scythe?
Earlier agricultural hearths in this part of the world raised yams.
What is Africa?