Chapter 1 (first farmers)


Agriculture has been growing for many years. Without agriculture we wouldn't be where we are today. Agriculture is so important because of the breeding of animals and plants that give away food, fiber, and other things to help make life for us and the things around us better. The most favored area that first experienced good agriculture was ancient Mesopotamia. They say the history of civilization started there in the middle east and I believe the reason why is because of what the land provided for the people. The chapter talks about fertile crescent which was the site that included a major breakthrough to agriculture and later developed one of the first civilizations. Archeologists found major innovations like the sun-dried mud bricks, polished axes, and more tools. This proved to be a great advantage to have a settled life. Now that I think about it, I believe the middle east's agriculture was probably the reason why so many ancient civilizations and empires fought each other just to have power over this land. Having full power for a land in ancient Mesopotamia can make you very wealthy. It makes sense why there are always wars around that area. Even dating back to the earliest civilizations, from prior knowledge of my anncestors I know this land caused people to experience genocides and massacres. The biggest reason why thats the case was because of its agriculture development. Next thing I found really interesting throughout chapter 1 was about the Statues of Ain Ghazal. Ain Ghazal in Arabic translates to eye of a deer but the pictures of the statues were simply looking like humans with wide eyes. Ain Ghazal which is now located in Jordan was a home to people who cultivated barley, wheat peas, beans, and lentils. In the textbook, the author asked what we as readers believe those Ain Ghazal statues represented. The options were heroes, gods, goddesses, or ordinary people? Since the statues that look like people are called Ain Ghazal that translates to eye of a deer, I believe they represent ordinary people that lived in the state of Jordan. Simply known as people that have the eyes or visions of a deer. Maybe thats the reason why they were good at cultivating things. This part of the chapter was probably the most interesting thing I read. I thought it was really unique since it was my first time knowing and reading about it. The development of agriculture today keeps developing and improving but to think about its history it makes me wonder how people did it back in the day and also how they took care of so many resources they had. Especially when not having the resources we have today. But at the same time, I feel like our ancestors and those from the early civilizations taught as the things we know today. In other words, without them using their resources the way they did, we would have never had agriculture be this good to us like how it is right now. This is important because without agriculture there would be no life. Or life would just be extremely hard to live.

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