Agriculture Civilization (Farming)
What is Farming?
Farming is growing food. Food we need in order to survive! The vegetable your mom cooks, the fruit you have sitting on your kitchen counter, the produce stands close to where you live, and even the lettuce or tomatoes in your hamburger, all of that was growing because of Farmers. Farmers know when the right time is to grow each of the vegetables and fruits. You might think Farming is not important, but that's the only way we can feed all the people in this world! Hunting would not be able to feed all of us because eventually we would start running out of animals to hunt, AND we wouldn't be getting the healthy food sources we need.
Why did Farming begin?
Farming began to help feed the large population that sooner or later Hunting was not gonna be able to feed. If farming never came to be such a successful thing Hunting would still be the way we get our food. If you think about it, would hunting help us survive with all the people we have in the world today? Eventually food was gonna run out, so Farming became to be because it feeds large populations and its healthier.
Women carefully picking crops
Where and When did Farming begin?
Farming began about 11,000 years ago in the High Lands East of the Mediterranean (fertile crescent) and the Nile Valley. Wheat was grown here. More and more places started to use farming like China, West Africa, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.
Where Farming began about 11,000 years ago.