Ways of the World. Chapter 1

There are three major eras on the way we produce things:

1.   Paleolithic Cyber 
2. Agricultural Revolution
3. Industrial Revolution

Paleolithic : We evolved as homo sapiens  (about 200,000 years ago-12,000 years ago)
In the paleolithic era, thirty percent of food was hunted, while the other seventy percent of food was gathered.  In this era, they lived in small groups that consisted of about twenty through twenty-five people. Due to a small amount people in a group, it created a whole society, participation from everyone, and kept the group alive. Also, since everyone worked together to provide for each other, it created more equal gender roles between men and women. They used basic/old stone tools and migrated out of Africa.

Agriculture:
Agriculture spread to adjacent areas, to almost all of the world's peoples. They expanded their foods and created a broad spectrum diet. Women were the innovators to deliberate farming, such as them collecting wild plants, while men lead in domesticating animals. Due to global warming, the end of the ice age, their advancement in agriculture, and technology, they settled down and established more permanent villages. Many believe that because the population increased drastically, the agricultural revolution began because they needed to provide for more people.

Variations

• They started to use digging stick/hoe. 
• Wheat, corn, rice, barely, sorghum supply more than half the calories that sustain human life. 
• The Fertile Crescent was the first to experience a full agricultural revolution.
• dry spell triggered revolution

The Globalization of Agriculture
 Triumph and resistance

Their interaction with the environment was seen through:

1. Setting fired as a way of replenishing soil
2. had so much land (they could move)
3. Cy-clinical (fertility)  point of view (world of cycles)  

Neolithic: Homo Sapiens adopted all other forms of genus homo