Human Geo 142 Final exam (Food Systems)

Small scale systems (food)

Group, tribe farming, Backyard farms, Hunter/Gatherer

Example: farmers Market

Why adopt Ag

Promote stability, Peak harvests, familiarity with an area, longer residence time.

Homesteading

Home grown food, Backyard farms, urban gardens

Large Box store

Walmart, jewel Osco

subsistence farming

producing just enough to meet immediate needs.

Backyard farms, urban gardens

Human Selection

humans began agriculture because they wanted better fruits, nuts, Animals,

Genetic mutations humans promote

Pleistocene overkill

Intensified hunting efforts that may have killed off many species of large animals in North America such as mammoths, horses &camels; started after giant continental glaciers began to melt 15,000 years ago.

Ag Surplus

Allows for cities, Urban systems come up, less moving, pop growth

Occupational specialization

Become something or someone

What did ag surplus lead to?

Feudalism (Small-scale self-contained estates controlled by lord/master)

Carrying capacity

How many people can live in a region

Arable Lands

Places that make a lot of food well

Animal Centered or plant centered

Plants in arable lands, animals of arable lands

Commercial Ag

Support self and for cash

Extensive Subsistence Ag

Subsistence but also moving

Intensive Subsistence Ag

Lots of concentrated effort, High yields, very nutritious foods

Urban Subsistence Farming

Greenhouse, roof top gardens

Great Columbian Exchange

1492 Columbus sales across the pond

Green Revolution

Attempt to spread western ag to everywhere else.

Imperial Economies

Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Islamic Empires, Degree of capitalism

Tertinary Sector

Service based

Quaternary sector

Intellectual products