Agricultural Revolution VBQ

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Directions: Watch the video clips below related to the Agricultural Revolution, also known as the Neolithic Revolution, listen actively, and respond to the questions that follow.

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Crash Course: Agricultural Revolution

Before the Agricultural Revolution, the main way people obtained food was through *

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Farming

Hunting and Foraging/Gathering

Herding

Cannibalism

Anthropologists believe that hunting and gathering was probably *

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less labor-intensive than farming

more labor-intensive than farming

just as much work as farming

Discuss AT LEAST 2 reasons why switching to farming was GOOD... (but more is fine!) *

Discuss AT LEAST 2 reasons why switching to farming was BAD... (but more is fine!) *

What is herding? Why is it sometimes a good alternative to farming? *

In what way did people in Eurasia have an advantage over people in the Americas? What did Eurasians have a lot of that Americans lacked? *

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Strength

Intelligence

Help from space aliens

Wild animals that just happened to be naturally well-suited for domestication

All of the following are theories for what motivated the shift to agriculture in different parts of the world EXCEPT... *

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Large population size forced people to do the extra work of farming since nature didn't provide enough by itself

Being able to amass a surplus through hunting and gathering gave people free time to experiment with domestication

Planting seeds to make them grow started as a religious ritual to make women have more babies (fertility)

Humans thought it would be cool if one day we could order Chipotle Burritos on our smartphones to be delivered by Uber Eats in a country built on slavery, and they knew farming was the first step in that direction

Humans needed to find a way to get way more grain than just the amount that grew naturally because they wanted it turn it into beer

BONUS POINTS: How Wolves Turned Into Man's Best Friend...

Dogs were the first domesticated animals, but they were domesticated way before farming started, so they are kind of off topic, but still really cool. So we'll make this two bonus points. If you get them right, I'll forgive two wrong answer from earlier!

The ancestors of all dogs are actually

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Wolves

Foxes

Cats

Dinosaurs

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Why were dogs useful to early humans?

These two clips are not part of the homework but just cool and related to the topic in case you want to watch them :-)

History Channel: Earliest Humans

The Birth of Farming

Ok so before you watch, a few quick notes about this video so you don't get confused. This video is not specifically talking about the FIRST farmers, the Natufians, but about the beginning of agriculture IN GENERAL. For that reason, they tend to oversimplify, and they really aren't to specific about HOW farming started, since those details differed from region to region. There are also a few points I disagree with, which I'll mention below, but overall, it's a really beautiful and vivid visualization. Just don't take everything these "experts" say as absolute truth, and when in doubt, refer back to the article I gave you, as well as the Crash Course video, for the details.

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