Stable+Food+Supply

Stable Food Supply is an important part of life because,if someone did not have it, whom would have died and we wouldn't be here today. It is hard to live without food, it is a very important part of life. Without food we would not grow, we would be weak and bony, and we would be forced to become cannibals. Stable food supply includes many things like agriculture, irrigation, farming, climate, and weather. Stable Food Supply is one of the most important thing in the world.

Farmers used technology to expand farmland. The early humans were very nomadic. They domesticated sheep and goats around 9000 B.C They raised them to make food and clothing. By around 8000 B.C they learned to modify the enviorment by growing plants and raising animals. After a human killed an animal, they used its skin for clothing, and they used the bones for weapons and tools. Humans had learned to domesticate plants and animals for their own use. Also farmers worked to learn different farming techniques like irrigation and agriculture.

By around 8000 B.C. people got the idea of agriculture- which was to plant seeds and raise crops. Agricultural Revolution was the name given to shift from food gathering to food raising. Agricultural Revolution made changes in tools and technology. Slash-and-burn agriculture was when farmers cleared fields by slashing and burning. African Farmers on the Nile were the first to use irrigation. Irrigation is the watering of crops. By around 6000 B.C. farmers built canals to carry water from the fields.


 * The Nile was an important source of farming because it helped with irrigation.** The river valleys were especially rich. The fertile soil produced bigger and better crops that attracted farmers. Egyptians used irrigation and Agriculture alot. The food was mostly based off of the irrigation and agriculture in Egypt. The farmers settled in Villages so they could go out in fields to work.

It is true without stable food supply, we would all die. It is a good thing we have different farming techiques to raise food correctly. Stable food supply has to do with a lot including climate and domestication. Also it was one of the six characteristics of a civilization.

Carmine, Douglas, Carlos Cortes, Kenneth Curtis, Anita Robinson. //World History: Ancient Civilizations.// Mc Dougal Littel, 2006.

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