early agriculture, agriculture revolution and food/population/ ag nexus

Question 1

benefits of a hunter gatherer society

Answer 1

equality, lesuire time, health, life expectatncy, less likely to stave

Question 2

disadvantages of pre industrial agriculture

Answer 2

1) high risk
2) more labor
3) social inequality
4) women are subordinate
5) emergence of most diseases
6) despotism
7) decline in health and life expectancy

Question 3

agricultural revolution disadvantages for diets

Answer 3

1) less nutritious and immune friendly
2) prone to famine
3) zoonosis diseases
4) huge population growth

Question 4

population size and agriculture

Answer 4

birth rates climb in agricultural society
- delayed age of reporduction
- lactational ammenhorea
-nutritional ammenhorea
leads humans towards dependency

Question 5

crops supplemey food supply but overtime

Answer 5

they increase fertility and therefore increase reliance. after awhile we cannot afford to abandon crops

Question 6

some explanations for the agricultural revolution

Answer 6

1) population pressure
2) ag improves predictability of food supply
3) religious code, reduction of male on male violence
4) farming as a status symbol

Question 7

early agriculture

Answer 7

• if a group wanted more food it needed more land which led to violent conflict
  -2 main types of extensive agriculture: pastoralism and swidden. not all domestication succeeded

Question 8

social ills and agriculture

Answer 8

1) quality of life
2) reliance on crops
4) ability to control and own land gives few power over many
5) women had more autonomy within a hunter gatherer society
6) agriculture is high risk and high reward (starving vs prospering, dietary diversity)

Question 9

disease ecology

Answer 9

• diseases take off when we become agricultural
• zoo diseases from animals
  -threshold population for disease is met through agriculture settlements

Question 10

why did the agricultural revolution take off

Answer 10

1) population pressure
2) dependency after awhile
3) ferility because of carbs

Question 11

food-population nexus

Answer 11

1) parable of the tribes
-a theory of social evolution which shows that power is like a contaminant, a disease, which once introduced will gradually yet inexorably become universal in the system of competing societies
2) carrying capacity of land