How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
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What does farming have to do with invention and innovation? Permanent residences, division of labor, central government, and complex technologies--all essential for advancing civilizations--could not have been developed without the move from hunting-gathering to farming. Patricia Russac explores how farming was a major innovation leading to the civilization we know today.
Agriculture, or growing plants and raising animals for food, developed in several regions of the world around the same time and changed human society forever. Explain the effects this had on the typical way of life for hunter-gatherers.
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- Director Joyce Stenneke
- Educator Patricia Russac
- Narrator Patricia Russac
