Geography
What do we mean by agriculture? How did it change the lifestyle of early humans?
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The word 'agriculture' is made up of two words 'ager' (field) and 'culture' (art of cultivation). It is thus the science of cultivating land to grow crops and rear livestock such as sheep, goat, cows, buffaloes, ducks, chickens and also fish.
Agriculture changed the lifestyle of early humans in the following ways:
- Early humans led a nomadic lifestyle by hunting and gathering food mostly in the forest. With time, they learnt to domesticate animals and grow crops. That is how they developed a settled lifestyle.
- Primitive tools such as hoe and sickle were initially used. With the passage of time, the need to produce more for the growing population drove people to find out modern means of farming that used machines such as tractors and combined harvesters.
- They learnt to make use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, irrigation facilities and many other such useful inputs in agriculture that are required to reap a good harvest.
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