Abbott,Emily:ISS
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- Fertile Crescent
- Scientists believed that the first farmers lived in the Fertile Crescent around 12,000 years ago.
- Neolithic Era
- Then in the Neolithic Era stone tools were created.
- Mixed Cropping
- Around the same time mixed cropping became popular. Mixed cropping is when 2 or more seeds are planted together in the same field
- One of the first farmers lived in the Fertile Crescent is in the Middle East which is where modern-day Iraq, Syria, Israel and others. It seemed that multiple groups of people in the Fertile Crescent started agriculture. The idea that farming started in a single population from the Mideast.
- Horticulture
- During the Neolithic Era in 9000 BCE was when the first stone tools developed. The last ice age ended around 12,000 years ago, that meant that the climate became warmer and that made it easier to farm.
- Modern Day
- An old technique is mixed cropping. It’s when two or more plants are planted together in the same field. Today, we use monoculture systems but mixed cropping does have its advantages.
- Modern Day
- Another technique was Horticulture which means the act of gardening. Horticulture is more of a modern way of farming than other techniques back then. Horticulture had the ability to store food for future needs. It has the ability to tend and control weeds and protect animals that they farmed. Horticulture began in the late fertile crescent era.
- Horticulture had the ability to store food for future needs. It has the ability to tend and control weeds and protect animals that they farmed.
- After thousands of years, we are in the modern day. Thousand of years of collective learning has made our lives easier.
- Now in the present day, we have grocery stores and shops all for our food not thinking that 12,000 years of collective learning has shaped our modern way of farming.
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