Domestication

Imagine a world without crops such as wheat and rice. Well without the European explorers, conquistadors, and settlers they would’ve never made it to the Americas.They played a massive role in the discovery of important crops and knowledge that the world would not live without it. They should be glorified and celebrated in modern times due to their benefits of cultural diffusion of knowledge, skills, religion, and food. Spain was one of the main starting point for cultural diffusion to the new world

People develop from hunter-gatherers into farmers overtime when food production began to evolve. Once some people began farming, other might be influenced by it and see that this more suitable for them. Then it gets popular, every hunter-gatherers will make conscious decisions about changing into farmers. For example, “hunter-gatherers in parts of southeastern Europe had quickly adopted Southwest Asian cereal crops, pulse crops, and livestock simultaneously as a complete package by around 6000B.C

Earliest evidence of war can be traced back to the Mesolithic era, approximately 14,000 years old. The actual military activity finds its roots in the rise of the concept of nation state some 5,000 years ago. In War Before Civilization, Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor at the University of Illinois, says that approximately 90–95% of known societies throughout history engaged in at least occasional warfare and many fought constantly. It is widely believed that Homo sapiens owed much of its rapid brain

Essentially we began as a nomadic population but once domestication of plants and animals occur we begin to see sedentary dwellings. It is then that populations are able to establish some sort of social class system, essentially modernizing the ancient

Andrea Atkinson History 140 Marcus Bussey Research Essay Why Human History Cannot be Understood in a Vacuum When trying to decipher what Clive Ponting meant when he said, “Human history cannot be understood in a vacuum,” I have deemed it is necessary to break the explanation up into three different parts. The first being, what does human history look like through a vacuum? What is it comprised of, what are its characteristics? The second being if human history is not understood in a vacuum

hogs, Russian wild boar or hybrids, a mixture of the first two kinds. Boars are called full bloods if they are pure wild boars and standard if they are a result of breeding domestic pigs and pure wild boars. Feral hogs are hogs that have escaped domestication and became wild. The free roam farming, or the practice of branding hogs and releasing them into the open to roam free and breed, is said to be responsible for the existence of feral hogs today.

As a result of habitat fragmentation and extensive hunting pressure, gray wolf (Canis lupus) populations have declined dramatically in Europe and elsewhere during recent centuries. The natural history of European populations of grey wolf (Canis lupus) has been characterized by a dramatic decline in numbers during the past few hundred years (Boitani 2003). Small and fragmented populations have persisted, but often only in the presence of large numbers of dogs, which increase the potential for hybridization

Maile’ana Kanewa-Mariano The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race As Jared Diamond asked and answered in his article titled: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, he found that the main mistake of our kind was the start of the agricultural revolution. The progressivist view tries to explain the distant past by saying that the primitive people’s lives significantly made a turn for the better when they switched to farming, from gathering. Archaeologists can determine this

Progressivism The Progressive Movement in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century presented quite a situation for historians to conquer. At the turn of the twentieth century political questioning was the norm. Practically every historian that writes about this time period has a different opinion of what made up “Progressive Movement,” some even going so far to beg the question if it was actually a movement or if it was more of an “era.” The two are interchanged so often that they

Controlled Fire in the Paleolithic Period (2.6 million B.C. – 10,000 B.C.) The origins of controlled fire go back to the Paleolithic Period, by early humans some of the evidence takes us all the way back to East Africa. The use of controlled fire was a big and important development for these early humans, this tool could be handled in so many ways not only provided them food but also shelter, and protection. The development of controlled fire meant that food could be haunted and cooked immediately