Summary Essays (279 words) - Agriculture, Food And Drink, Livestock

Summary In the beginning they found their natural resources were wheat and barley which they continued to grow these resources. They also found water and stayed around the water so they could access it and became farmers so that way they could continue to grow these resources. Farming was crucial in order for survival and brought the resources back to them i order to grow more of them. They also began to domesticate animals and the best animals to domesticate were large plant eating animals. In order for these animals to be domesticated they had to get along with humans. This happened approximately 9,000 years ago when human interactions with animals began to change. Animals were domesticated for their meat but also for their milk, hair, and skin. These things provided protein and also clothes and warmth for many people. Among the first animals to be domesticated were goats and sheep. Animals were also important for the invention of the plow to allow farming to be done faster and wider. A lthough farming was successful in the Middle East it was not successful in New Guinea because they did not have the crops needed in order for their civilization to survive and thrive. There was a protein deficiency and they had no "beasts of burden" so all of their work was manual and hard. This made obtaining and maintaining resources that much harder. The Middle East was also home to the fertile crescent which allowed them to have access to some of the best crops unlike the area of New Guinea. This is why geography is so important to history and how civilizations survived or didn't