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evelopment of Agriculture
NEW CHALLENGES FOR HUMANITY
The development of agricultural about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived.
They switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and
farming. Humans organized to face the new conditions they found in places they arrived:
other climates, new predators, even more primitive humans. This new period of time
received the name of "Neolithic".
AGRICULTURE IN ANDEAN AMERICA
Indigenous peoples in America were
diverse. The communities practice
agriculture in a period call "Formative".
In this period, people live in villages,
discover and develop ceramics, make
textiles (including cotton), improve
stone tools and, some, discover the
metallurgy of copper and gold.
FARMING REVOLUTION
Around the world people changed their way of life about 10,000 years ago, adopting some
form of agriculture. It's thought that climatic changes at the end of the last ice age brought
seasonal conditions that favored plants to grow naturally. It also influenced some groups to
observe that plants have a cycle: they are born, grow and bear fruit. Traditional huntergatherer lifestyles, followed by humans since their evolution, were swept aside in favor
of permanent settlements and a reliable food supply.
MAIN CENTERS OF DEVELOPMENT
Regarding the intensive development of the agriculture, there were four main centers:
a) The Fertile Crescent, of the
Mediterranean (today countries of
Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and
Turkey), 10.000 years ago.
b) Northwest China, 7000 years ago.
c) Mesoamerica (Central and southern
Mexico and adjacent areas of Central
America), 5000 years ago.
d) Andean America (today Ecuador and
Peru), 4000 years ago
COMMON PRODUCTS
✓ One of the first plants to be cultivated in what
now are the United States, Mexico and the
Pacific coast of South America was the squash, a
kind of pumpkin (at least 10,000 years ago).
Corn cultivation was spread throughout the
Americas, from the current Canada to Chile.
Some communities cultivated corn only
✓ Yucca is also one of the oldest crops in the
humid tropical zones of the Caribbean and the
Amazon basin.
✓ Also, beans were cultivated in Mesoamerica,
the Caribbean and South America