enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Neolithic Revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

    The term 'neolithic revolution' was invented by V. Gordon Childe in his book Man Makes Himself (1936). [18] [19] Childe introduced it as the first in a series of agricultural revolutions in Middle Eastern history, [20] calling it a "revolution" to denote its significance, the degree of change to communities adopting and refining agricultural ...

  3. Timeline of agriculture and food technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_agriculture...

    1700 – British Agricultural Revolution ends; 1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture. 1809 – French confectioner Nicolas Appert invents canning; 1837 – John Deere invents steel plough

  4. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture_in...

    In the period of the Neolithic Revolution, roughly 8000-4000 BCE, [11] Agro pastoralism in India included threshing, planting crops in rows and storing grain in granaries. [3] [12] Barley —either of two or of six rows— and wheat cultivation—along with the rearing of cattle, sheep and goat—was visible in Mehrgarh by 8000-6000 BCE.

  5. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture

    The Green Revolution exported the technologies (including pesticides and synthetic nitrogen) of the developed world to the developing world. Thomas Malthus famously predicted that the Earth would not be able to support its growing population. Still, technologies such as the Green Revolution have allowed the world to produce a food surplus. [190]

  6. Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bakewell...

    Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English agriculturalist, now recognized as one of the most important figures in the British Agricultural Revolution. In addition to work in agronomy, Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.

  7. Arab Agricultural Revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Agricultural_Revolution

    The Arab Agricultural Revolution [a] was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries). The agronomic literature of the time, with major books by Ibn Bassal and Ibn al-'Awwam , demonstrates the extensive diffusion of useful plants to Medieval Spain ( al-Andalus ), and the growth in ...

  8. Agricultural technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_technology

    A major turning point for agricultural technology is the Industrial Revolution, which introduced agricultural machinery to mechanise the labour of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. Revolutionary inventions like the seed drill, mechanical reaper, and steam-powered tractors reshaped the farming landscape.

  9. Agricultural revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_revolution

    Agricultural revolution may refer to: First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world