Task 1: Geography and the Development/Diffusion of Human Societies Princess Dana Catacutan Part A The most significant geographic factor that contributed to the development of the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia were the two rivers that surrounds it. Tigris and Euphrates rivers served great source of food and used for irrigation of crops. It was an ideal place for early people to settle in Mesopotamia to utilize the life giving water of these two rivers. Also, the two rivers were used for transportation and trade. Irrigation from the two rivers made it possible for the early settlers to farm and had abundant crops for trade.
Besides being a highly influential Native American figure of early New England, Squanto played a role in the earliest known Thanksgiving celebration. Squanto spent much of his life living in the Plymouth Colony teaching his newly acquired English friends how to survive in this foreign land. He helped them greatly in the area of growing and gathering food. Without the help of Squanto, the English never would have discovered many important methods involved in growing a decent crops the American soil. Squanto showed the immigrants how to plant corn in hillocks, using dead herring as fertilizer after many failed attempts of growing while using their own Methods.
Rivers have helped develop civilizations, empires, countries and regions. Rivers are a moving body of water that usually has its source in an area of high ground. They are many examples of rivers of rivers around the world like the Tigris and Euphrates River located in Mesopotamia but the longest river in the world is located in Egypt it is called The Nile River. Rivers are helpful in many ways. Rivers helped civilizations like the Yellow River in China and the Indus River in India because rivers helped them create irrigation systems to help water their crops.
Although the Incas were more advanced and modern in their ways, the Inca and Aztec Empires were similar in some of the aspects that allowed them to be so successful and powerful. First, both civilizations had intensive agriculture mandated by the state. The crops were then redistributed to all the social classes equally. Both economies depended greatly on agriculture and farming, even producing some of the same crops such as corn and squash. Although agriculture based societies have been around for a long time in history and were pretty much the norm in this time period, their agriculture systems still created a surplus of crops, which allowed for increased populations.
Furthermore they were also heavily involved in such crops as alfalfa, barley, cabbage, cotton, cucumbers, dates, grapefruit, grapes, peas, and squash, among others. Many Japanese farmers operated dairies and raise hogs until the agricultural depression of the 1920s, plus they also introduced fruits such as the strawberry, castor; and techniques often called “hot capping” and “brush covering”. By 1941 ¾ of the Japanese American population of Imperial Valley was involved in agriculture. Another great culture attributing to the Imperial Valley was Mexico. Mexican culture is a rich, complex blend of Native American, Spanish, and American traditions.
The Mbuti are considered to be a foraging group of people or better known as hunters-gatherers because they depends primarily on wild food for subsistence. The Mbuti people are still around today because everything they do, say and portray is reflective of the rain forest, although the Mbuti’s economic organization is simple, their social organization on the other hand is not. From their beliefs and values to their social and economic structures, the Mbuti rely on their knowledge to survive (Harako 1976). The climate is divided into a rainy season from April to November and a dry season from December to March. The rain falls two out of three in the rainy season and one out of three in the dry season.
In chapter 2: The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt were in some ways very much alike. Mesopotamia and Egypt both had a great agriculture that helped them gain a little wealth. The Nile was a big part of the agriculture between the people. The most important waterways were the Indus and the Huang He in Asia, the Danube in Europe, and the Mississippi in North America. These rivers helped farmers with transportation, which then helped their agriculture grow.
The Aztec diet consisted of maize, beans, squash, chillies, tomatoes, limes, cashews, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and cocoa beans. Cocoa beans were used by the Aztecs to make a
The foundation of civilization rested on the ability to produce and sustain agricultural products that fueled the growth of populations in the area. In Mesopotamia, the salinated soil and irregular schedule of the flooding rivers made the development of civilization difficult, however through implementation of irrigation techniques, the populous of the Fertile Crescent was able to claw out some semblance of a life. From the development of irrigation, small communities of humans grew. With the growth of these communities, what we now identify with as traits of civilization arose. Things such as pictographs and social and communal norms grew into written language and written laws that were proliferated throughout the region.
Cassava-based crop mixture involves the cultivation of two or more crops on the same piece of land with cassava as the base or main crop. The effective utilization of this system of cassava production will help insure the crop farmers against heavy loss economically and otherwise (Odurukwe et al. 1996). Obayelu, et al. (2014) studied the relative profitability of cassava based mixed cropping system and reported that the cassava/cowpea enterprise had the highest net margins of ₦127,249.63/ha and ₦122,325.73/ha in Ogun and Oyo States respectively.