The Fertile Crescent & Rome
In this year, agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent.
What is 10,000 BC
This historical event moved crops, animals, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange
This U.S. law allowed citizens to claim land in the West if they lived on and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act
This environmental disaster was caused by drought, poor farming practices, and severe soil erosion.
What is the Dust Bowl
This farming technique brought water from rivers or other sources directly to crops.
What is irrigation
In this year, Rome made its major contribution to agriculture history?
What is 6000 BCE
This historical event turned shared public land into privately owned farms.
What is the British Enclosure Movement
This invention made it inexpensive and easy to fence land and control livestock
What is barbed wire
This was a major contribution of the Green Revolution.
What is synthetic fertilizers
Before barbed wire, farmers relied on this method to keep track of their livestock.
What is branding
The Sumerians contributed this major invention to agriculture history.
What is irrigation
In this year, the British Enclosure Movement began.
What is 1750
By making fencing affordable, barbed wire helped bring an end to much of this system of livestock management.
What is open-range grazing
In this year, the Green Revolution began.
What is 1965
This agricultural problem occurs when wind or water removes topsoil, and it became a major issue during the Dust Bowl.
What is soil erosion
The Romans contributed this major invention to agriculture history.
What is Crop rotation
In this year, the Columbian Exchange began.
What is 1492
In this year, the Homestead Act was passed.
What is 1862
The Dust Bowl led farmers to care more about this aspect of agriculture.
What is soil science
The Green Revolution's increased food production was especially important as the world's ______ continued to grow.
What is population
A farming method where different crops are planted in the same field in a planned order to improve soil health
What is crop rotation
This was the main benefit of the British Enclosure Movement
What is giving farmers more control of agriculture
What is make an improvement, like building a home or starting a farm.
In this year, the Dust Bowl began.
What is 1930
After 1492, this hemisphere received European crops and livestock through the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Americas