In the documentary Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, he explains his theory of how people live different lives by people being poorer than others. He also explains how people in the past lived and how they farmed crops, hunted animals, and built their own homes out of dry sand. Jared also explains how some societies are more materially successful than others. He compares societal success to geography, food production, immunity to germs, the domestication of animal, and use of steel.
The Industrial Revolution completely reinvented society in the 1800s. This change would not have arisen though without the outcome of the Agricultural Revolution in which new farming methods created greater farm output that decreased death rates. One of these methods was the enclosure, the fencing off of land by rich landowners for more efficient cultivation of the fields. The enclosure movement pushed farmers off of their land, thus forcing them to move to the cities in search of work. Urbanization supplied the work force for the new factories that generated industrialization.
Changes had become inevitable and sedentary people were trying to adapt to obtain food. The Neolithic Revolution was important in three ways: sedantism (Natufian), food production, and domestication (animal domestication was crucially important to Old World, not New World). The shift from hunter-gatherer to sedentary was gradual and slow that emerge from the Middle East and eventually spreading to Asia, Europe, and Northern African. Eventually, the effects of the Neolithic Revolution created agricultural advantages that help with the growth of population, trade, government, and
The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, changed the way countries in Europe functioned. Before this it was a period predominantly agrarian. The industrial revolution led rural societies in Europe to become industrial and urban. Preceding the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machinery. Industrialization let to a shift to powered machines and advanced tools, factorization.
Although rural depopulation became a serious issue during this period of rapid
For the first time, because of farming, people had a surplus of food. The surplus of food allowed for people to become artisans, so not
Imagine working in a cottage industry that makes cloth out of cotton, going through to pick each and every seed out. Now we don’t have to worry about these kinds of things because the machines do the job for us. Industrialization provided simple machinery to do the work that once took hours and hours. Document number 20 proves that industrialization developed the way people produce goods. This document presents the idea that even if there were some comforts during the industrial era, they were only accessible by some people.
New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production ------------------ How did agriculture’s role change between 1450-1750? What pre-requisite conditions made these changes possible? 4.2.I How did labor systems develop between 1450-1750? 4.2.I.A How was peasant labor affected between 1450-1750?
Societies in a “hunting and gathering” stage have lower populations than societies in “agricultural societies” for reasons as explained in the Demographic Transition Model. Stage one societies (hunting and gathering) have low populations due to their inconsistency in having food to eat. They reproduce less children for fear of not having enough resources to sustain them. Stage two societies (agricultural revolution) have a sudden boom in population growth due to people educating themselves on how to grow food and make better choices as far as raising a family goes. It is not uncommon for families in this stage to have 6-8 kids
Due to the Neolithic Revolution, the economic, social, and lifestyle status of the nomadic peoples dramatically changed in countless ways. A few ways is by shifting from hunting animals and gathering plants to producing food by systematic agriculture, domesticating animals, building villages, and creating religions. Although not an overnight transition, these changes truly began the bare basics of an economy, not to mention allowed nomads to stay in one place and start up a prosperous group of people. This shift also affected nomads and hunter-gatherers socially and in their everyday lifestyle by allowing them to “settle down” and build structures to keep material possessions for once, which they were not allowed to do when traveling constantly.
Farming was a difficult job that did not provide much money to support a family. People needed to find ways to support their family, but jobs were limited where they were. Due to the amount people moving to Britain, buildings became packed and could not house all the people that were coming in (Worldbook.com,4). Since there were limited jobs outside of the city, lots of people were coming to factories to find jobs and the country was not able to keep up with the flow of people. Families were crowded into a limited living space.
I believe the theory that Jared Diamond use in Guns Germs and Steel to try and answer Yali ’s question is cultural ecology. Agricultural practices, such as harvesting and gathering, in terms of their long-term role, help humans adapt to their environment. To Diamond, the environment sets the path towards civilization and set the inequality in humans. The different factors that involved in nature come down to geography, soil fertility, plant and animal availability, and climate.
In Robert Marks’ “The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences, 1750-1850” Marks goes on to describe the end of the biological old regime and the beginning of Industrial Revolution that mechanized the world. In the old regime, people’s necessities all came exclusively from the land. However, in a revolution powered by coal, surplus goods could be manufactured in industries. This allowed the population capacity of the world to increase and a different set of challenges unseen in the old regime to arise.
The invention of new machines such as tractors and threshing machines resulted in bigger harvests and the sale of agricultural produce for profit. The development of steam-powered machines and the popularisation of the production line in factories during this period led to more products manufactured in greater amounts for sale, steering up the cycle of demand and supply for the rapidly increasing population. It is therefore evident that the Industrial Revolution was a pivotal turning point in human history as it led to massive changes in the economy and the traditional way of living life for a great
The agricultural stage consisted of people using their resources and creating food for their usage later. In comparison to hunters and herders, the agricultural stage took resources, saved them and took extra steps in the food process, allowing a more stable form of food, plants that were planted, cultivated, and harvested. Lastly, the commerce society involved interactions with others through buying and selling to exchange goods. Talk about money currency, liquid possession with value. During the Eighteenth Century, Scotland was a flourishing Commerce
