Agricultural Revolution Years Ago

How did we get here? And how, if I earned minimum wage could earn enough to buy this after 11 minutes of work?

To find out we got to the $.99 cheeseburger we have to look to prehistory What is History and when did it start? yrs ago mankind was hunter & gatherers These people, from archaeological evidence, were healthier than those after farming was invented. Hunter/gatherers also spent less time working

Agriculture sprang up independently all over the world

So, agriculture must have been better to abandon free time, right? Advantages Less chance of starvation Food surplus = Cities and specialization Cities and Specialization = – More inventions – Able to produce more food – Which leads us to the $.99 cheeseburger Can be practiced all over the world Disadvantages Radically change the environment to farm. (more work) Farming is hard work so it often causes one group to subjugate another group into forced labor Larger societies create larger and more devastating war Famine

Herders – keeper of animals must keep moving their animals in search of grazing Advantage 1 st – you get to be a cowboy! Animals provide meat and milk Provide clothing and other useful things like leather Disadvantage Requires a lot of food to produce food Hard to make cities because of constant moving – Unless you are the Mongols Very few animals can be tamed

So why did agriculture happen? No one really knows because it happened in pre-history. Possible reasons – More people meant need more food – Leisure time created experimentation – Fertility rituals – Or people needed more grain to make more alcohol – Perhaps, people just wanted more to eat