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History of agriculture

  • PeasantA 1909 photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky shows young women offering berries to visitors at their izba home. Those who had been serfs among the Russian…
  • PloughThe earliest ploughs appeared in the 3rd millennium BC, personified in a Sumerian disputation poem known as the Debate between the hoe and the plough.
  • DomesticationThe Latin word domesticus means belonging to the house. This term remained loosely defined until the 21st century when American archaeologist Melinda A.
  • EnclosureIn 1066 William I invaded England and distributed its land among 180 barons. He established a feudal system where these barons held the land as his tenants…
  • History of agricultureThe Ohalo II people gathered wild grains on the shores of the Sea of Galilee around 21,000 BC. This small-scale cultivation marked one of the earliest known…
  • Vavilov centerNikolai Vavilov stood before a map of the world in 1924 and drew lines that would change agriculture forever. He proposed that cultivated plants were not…