Do you know about influence of agriculture on civilisations?

Answer 1

Often agriculture is seen as the real root of civilisation. That is right if we mean that urban culture is the measure and quality. But there is also culture in societies of hunters, gatherer, fishermen, herds and so on. If culture is a question of voting urban cultures always win. If it is a question of quality and sustainability rural cultures win. Still real agriculture is only 100 to 200 years of age. Before that the methods were the same far back to the beginning of agriculture.

The map of culture and agriculture of the past would be very different from today and even from my childhood in the forties. Then 80 - 90 % of people were living in the countryside. Now it is the other way around that people live in cities. Farther back before the land hunger in 19th century agriculture used the best places in nature without much of draining water in the planned way. The local climate was harder and wetter and naturally agriculture was risky.

Then it was the best and secure way to live in villages being like collectives since it was a way of life to share and help each other. With feudalism and kingdoms the nobility wanted to share by taxation and the kings preferred individual owners as tax objects, while feudal masters wanted slaves but mostly got tenants. It was a process of thousands of year and with different pace depending on landscape and climate.

Agriculture came in waves and looks sometimes as short mission while gathering, hunting and keeping animals were the secure and traditional ways of living. We do not see much of rituals showing the traditional industries including mineralogy and metallurgy that also cultivate earth. Once agriculture become stable the population increased and gave the base for bigger villages and more of specialised workers. For long it was the big farms and nobility that kept specialists.

The cattle people settled in the best places near a well but higher than wet and misty meadows and we sufficient wind for the draw. Many of our place names have an ending that tells about milking place or some kind of coral for keeping the animals during the night. They suppose that change of climate during Iron Age forced people to keep the animals indoors and harvest hey and leaf for the winter.

Cattle-people or mainly cattle-breeders needed normally 25 - 50 square kilometres for a settlement that used the nature for all materials needed in household. A measure of the width was that a young girl should drive a heifer from sunrise to sunset around the land they claimed. That was the practical measure that a settlement should be able to get their animals home for night.

It is inevitable that they looked also for hunting possibilities; fishing water; a place for the cabbage garden; hey meadow and perhaps a little cornfield giving the beer. We have to understand that kind of folklands before the time of planned villages that came with kings and taxation. Before that it seem s to have been collective villages of farmers and others with noble traders producing things for sale besides their agriculture.

Agriculture would need much smaller space but could not live without all the raw materials they needed from nature. Still effective agriculture could feed cities.

This is naturally about the conditions on Dal when I tell about the mediaeval order until 17th century:

Answer 2

Agriculture, in fact, gave birth to civilisation.

Before man learnt to cultivate crops, he was a hunter, gatherer and herder. So he had to constantly be on the move for new pastures. But once he learnt to cultivate crops, he had to stay put at one place to allow his crops to grow. This is how civilisations actually started. And since crops require water for cultivation, most civillisations grew near river valleys.

It also gave rise to war - before agriculture, land was of no value, but gained tremendous value once man became a farmer. Thus disputes over land became.

Answer 3

Key factors: - agriculture helps people to calm down completely in a community, in assessment to the nomadic searching-and-amassing existence. - agriculture helps people to advance their inhabitants immediately. - agriculture helps artwork diversification and specialization, meaning that persons can do different activities/job - for this reason, agriculture creates an a growing to be type of extra complicated society in terms of subculture, politics, economic device, wisdom, and social kin.

Answer 4

Yes.

We as a human were always moving in the search of water and food.

Once we learn to cultivate the soil and grow our own food we became settlers.

Agriculture had humongous impact on civilisations.

It changed us completely. We had more time to do the other useful things.

Answer 5

very broad question, so it can be taken many ways. the most obvious would be that agriculture allows civilizations to grow their own food and support themselves with a certain amount of nutrition.