*History 8 Agricultural Revolution Notes
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Emergence of Agriculture
* Page 1-2 The Emergence of Sedentary Agriculture
* Page 3 Understanding the New Mode of Life
* Page 4 What are the opportunities of the new way of life?
* Pages 5-6 Problems
* Page7 Population Growth and Epidemic Diseases
Technology
* Pages 1-3. What were some of the technological changes necessary to sustain the new sedentary, agricultural mode of life?
* Page 4-5 Processing Cereal Grains
* Page6 gender roles
*Pages 7-9 Pottery and Weaving
Page 10
* What were the cultural changes necessary?
*What are some of the advantages of economic specialization?
* Why did it begin to occur shortly after agriculture emerged as a way of life?
Domestication
*Page 1 What are agriculture and monoculture? Advantages and disadvantages.
*Page 2 Domestication process
*Page 3 Erosion
*Page 4 Maize
*Page 5 Domestication of animals
*Page 6 Learning to Use What is Available
Social Consequences
*Page 1 Introduction and definitions
*Page 2 The Emergence of Elites
*Page 3 Urban Life
*Page 4 Consequences