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• Name the 14 domesticated large animals used for agriculture and food

ANSWERS

• Cows, sheep, horses, yak, water buffalo, pigs, goats, Llama, Bali cattle, Arabian camel, Bactrian camel,mithans, reindeer, donkeys

Hunter Gatherer Societies

HOW HUNTER GATHERERS LIVED

WHY PEOPLE LIVED BY WATER

LOTS OF FISHING

HUNTING WAS NOT COMMON

PALEOLITHIC DIETS

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MODERN DIET EFFECTS

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DISCUSSION ON PALEOLITHIC DIETS

• Why did they not have dairy?
• Why did they not have grain?
• What effects does farming have on the body?
• What is good or bad about hunter gatherer societies? i.e. limitations, disease.

AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

WHAT IS THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION?

• We see people gathering in common centers or cities
• As people gathered they needed more food
• Farming grain became the way to stock up on a surplus of food

ADVANTAGES TO CITIES AND AGRICULTURE

• Introduction to trade
• Necessity and or time to invent machines and other implements
• Larger populations
• More ideas on society and introduction of the rule of law
• People started to have non-food gathering jobs, introduction to skilled labor
• Introduction to police and politics. Crime and punishment.

DISADVANTAGES TO CITIES AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES

• Crime
• Disease
• Free riding
• Politics
• Kings and expansion of territory

WE HAVE BEEN GENETICALLY MODIFYING FOOD FOR GENERATIONS

• Uncultured almonds are deadly
• Fruits were tart, i.e. apples
• Corn cannot self seed

In-Class Activity

ZOMBIE APACOLYPSE

• In small groups discuss the following and create a plan to survive.
• The world as we know it has just ended and you have no modern technology or resources.
• You must figure out how to survive, find food, make clothes, care for children and the sick.
• You must create a plan that will make your group survive with no modern comforts and document your plan.