Compare and contrast life before and after the Agricultural Revolution


Before:
• People lived together in small bands of extended family members.
• People were nomadic - without villages, homes, or fixed dwellings.
• People moved to take advantage of changing opportunities on the landscape.
• People scouted large areas for food and resources.
• People had relatively limited impact on the natural environment.
After:
People began taking a more active role in planning for their future food needs and participated in:
• domestication and breeding of animals
• cultivation of plants and animals
• dry farming and then irrigation
• development and implementation of new tools – the plow, then the heavy plow

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Fill in the blank with correct word.

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