Unit 5: First Agricultural Revolution & Agricultural Hearths Flashcards
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Where is the fertile crescent located?
between the Euphrates and Tigres river
Where did the first agricultural revolution start?
fertile crescent
What happened in the first agricultural revolution?
the shift from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculture
What crops originated from the fertile crescent?
-wheat
-oats
-barley
What crops originated from Sub-Saharan Africa?
-yams
-coffee
-sorghum
What crops originated from Central America?
-maize
-potatoes
-squash
-peppers
What crops originated from East Asia?
-rice
-soybeans
What crops originated from Southeast Asia?
-mangos
-coconuts
What is the Columbian Exchange?
the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the old world and the new world
What is the Silk Road?
network of trade routes that connected China and Mediterranean from roughly around 130 B.C.E to 1450 C.E
What did the Columbian Exchange do?
-created a food surplus in Europe
-population boom in Europe
-brought a lot of bad diseases for Indigenous groups in the New World
What did the Silk Road do?
-spread crops
-new inventions
-cultural practices
-reshaped the cultural landscape
