AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.3 Agricultural Origins and Diffusions
Notes
- The First Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic) began domesticating plants and animals in hearths like the Fertile Crescent.
- The Columbian Exchange moved crops and animals between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
Practice
The Fertile Crescent is known as a hearth of:
Wheat and barley.
Potatoes moving from the Americas to Europe was part of the:
Post-1492 exchange.
The First Agricultural Revolution allowed:
Farming instead of foraging.
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