ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

• Sumerians first caught fish and ate wild vegetation
• They tended the fields and found that crops grew
• The Sumerians invented agriculture

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FARMING

• Egyptians grew wheat, barley, and vegetables
• They were part of the Agricultural Revolution
• Despite farmers being low on the social pyramid, the pharaoh got half of the agriculture that was grown and blamed for bad agriculture

ANCIENT INDIAN AGRICULTURE

• Wheat, barley, jujube, crops, sheep, and goats are grown and bred
• They planted crops from 2-6 rows
• The Indus Valley civilization grew peas and sesame seeds.

ANCIENT CHINESE AGRICULTURE

• They grew wet or paddy rice in fertile areas
• They grew winter wheat, sweet potatoes,corn, and vegetables in regular areas
• Their nuts and seeds were rape-seed, sesame, and peanuts

ANCIENT ISRAEL

• They grew grains, grapes, figs, olives, legumes, onions, cucumbers, melons, dates, pomegranates, almonds, and spices
• Their flax fibers were rope and linen
• The seeds were fed to livestock

ANCIENT GREECE AGRICULTURE

• They grew wheat, barley, durum wheat, millet, and cereal
• They grew crops like in the Odyssey

ANCIENT ROME AGRICULTURE

• The Romans used slaves to farm with the oxen and do the crops
• This led to the south making African-Americans be slaves.

MEDIEVAL EUROPE

• The medieval Europeans used the feudal system to farm
• They made the peasants do the agriculture.

RECENT FARMING

• Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association
• They were the first great Hispanic American farmers to found anything

FUTURE AGRICULTURE

• In the future, they willii have tractors that you can control with a remote
• They had complex planting machines

Agriculture has changed over time in many ways. This is portrayed throughout my slideshow. The ancient civilizations used different types of farming. The most recent was Medieval. But about 1,500 years later, they used farmers and started using vehicles. That led to tractors and then to John Deere tractors. This is how agriculture changed over time.

MAYAN AGRICULTURE

• Despite Maya(now present-day Yucatan) being extremely rocky, vegetation thrived
• One reason was they got 36 inches of rain every year
• The other reason is they build cenotes

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