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Global Issues – Unit 1 – Agricultural Revolution Worksheet
Agricultural Revolution
Positives (6) Negatives (5)
People during the Agricultural They had to keep radically
Revolution had a very changing the environment of the
controllable food supply. planet, because they had to keep
Sincethey were growing the feeding people. It was a lot of
crops, they were able to have hard work for people to keep
more food. People were less growing and growing foods, so
likely to starve and had a great they used more land to make
advantage when it came to more food.
needing more food. They grew
great amounts at a time, which
held them off until they needed to
grow more food.
Since they grew grain, they Because of Agriculture, we have
created a food surplus. They things like patriarchy, inequality,
could make many different foods war, and famine. This was
out of just the wheat. This made because people were believed to
cities possible and also the not be as strong as others.
specialization of labor. Foraging Women couldn’t do the work, and
was a very big job and a lot of black people were forced to do it.
people did it, so there was a lot Famine was caused because
of food to make and store. several droughts happened in
different countries, so they didn’t
have any food/
Agriculture could be practiced all Farming was very hard work. This
over the world. This really helped caused slavery. People wanted
out different countries if they others to work for them, so they
needed food or if they were at a bought and sold slaves. This
shortage. It helped give people affected us greatly in a horrible
nutrients around the world and way. We still in fact have
that is what affected us now and problems with it today. This was
helps us to be healthier now. a very non-ideal social order,
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according to agricultural
communities.
Without Agriculture, people
If we didn’t have agriculture, wouldn’t have changed the
humans never would have environment so much. Agriculture
changed the environment. From is the reason we have things like
what I can tell, without dams, and we’re clearing forests,
Agriculture, we might have even and we are drilling for oil which
been in a famine right now. That hurts the earth. Even though we
is why we are very thankful for may need some of these
this Agriculture, even though it resources, it is not benefitting
had many downsides too it. the earth in any good way. It is
polluting it which causes crops to
die.
Agriculture could also support Now that we’ve made the choice
people not involved in the of Agriculture, we can’t get rid of
production of food. Like trades it. So did it really help? Or did it
people, which could devote their affect the world in a bad way.
lives to better farming equipment, There have definitely been some
which makes it easier to produce bad aspects of it. It has made
more food more efficiently. permanent damage to our country
that we either can’t undo, or will
take a long time.
Herding also helped a lot with the
Revolution. These animals
provide meat and dairy products.
Which helped us get more food
and fed more people. They also
gave us shelter because they
provided products like wool and
leather.
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Global Issues – Unit 2 – Agricultural Revolution Worksheet
Was the Agricultural revolution a good thing for human history? (Give
three reasons to support your claim).
The Agricultural Revolution was a good thing for human history. it
impacted the way we get our food now. It helped us feed and shelter
many people. We started a surplus of food, and that really gave us an
advantage for people who were starving at the time, because they
got the food they needed. Next, Agriculture supplied shelter, and
clothing to keep us warm. Animals gave us materials like wool and
leather, and their skin. At the time this helped to make wool clothes
for the winter. Their skin could also make clothes for people to wear.
Lastly, if we didn’t have agriculture, where exactly would we be
now? We may not hace the homes and companies we have today, but
that is not necessarily a good thing. There is a lot of shelter and
places for people to eat, and stay safe. But this also caused other
countries to go into a drought. So for the most part, I’d say the
Agricultural Revolution did us good.
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