Ellis Rennie- @Acerola211 All that wheat could be there in part because of the agricultural efforts of ancient peoples.
Coldbrand- I think it's supposed to be pronounced cu-NAY-if-form sal
Ellis Rennie- @BitterBurst Blue-rare steak is delicious, and when I was really into weight training I used to shoot raw eggs, but that tasted disgusting. That said, it can be pretty hard to beat a charbroiled burger with the right seasoning.
Inkognito- This is a great video, but I think Khan left out (whether purposely or accidentally) a huge reason why agriculture was important. Settling down with a steady supply of food meant that we no longer had to base our lives around finding food, instead now we had more free time, which allowed us to develop special skills.
MindofScience3- Stone Age -> Metallic Ages -> ???
Emanresu56- @Acerola211 Thanks for the clarification. :)
Destro7000- @armpitpuncher more of a Bud. xD
Saadiq S- looks like the beginning of a new series of videos :D
plllll0- @JosephLoegering the ignorance you show is unbelievable
Acerola211- @Emanresu56 The textbook says, "Natufian settlements [the people who've settled due to abundant wild grains rather than because they started farming] . . . show permanent architectural features and evidence for the processing and storage of wild grains. One such site is Abu Hureyra, Syria, which was initially occupied by Natufian foragers around 11,000 to 10,500 B.P." It sounds to me that these archaeologists didn't find farming tools but permanent settlements based on wild grains in that area.
azaz129- A wonderful book on the development and the reason of differences in development of civilizations is Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies"
rockYhre- Great video!
cristoretornebiblia- Sal, make a video on Indus Civilization and Ancient India
Acerola211- @christerryatl Well, I think we can all agree that agriculture made humanity the way it is today. There's definitely a lot of positive outcomes, but I do agree that there are some negative outcomes, as well. I think it's good to be grounded in reality.
AdventureTime18- Noobs response. Being a hunter gatherer gives you more spare time than toiling in a field all day. Writing and scientific advancement was made by the higher classes who were free of work.
Acerola211- . . . So the Kottack textbook, at least, says that agriculture didn't develop (in the Middle East) because someone suddenly got smart and figured that agriculture would lead to "civilization", rather because food gathering was no longer sufficient in the new land that these people were living in so the people had to get creative and do something different. My professor says that while agriculture had its benefits, it opened a whole can of worms that created a lot of problems, too, ha ha.
PentaMaker- Weren't we supposed to be learning astronomy?
SLAP Company- Success for Managers is: Respect. To be paid to think, not just to comply. To be trusted.
armpitpuncher- @EdgeRetro Evolution is not a ladder. It is a tree, and we are but a twig.
DanielHiroshi- Never posted on Khan Academy before but if you plot human saccharomyces cerevisiae on with human expansion you will see they correlate and the reason for that is that brewing microbes from water, so alcohol is one of our important discoveries. Still though no doubt Agriculture is the most important aspect of human history and future.
SpoiledLogic- What playlist is this video in?
XxIblinkIxX- I don't think so, natural selection occurs because species adapt to the environment to survive. Seeing as how we have colonized the planet we have nothing to adapt to. I think if anything the next step in human evolution will be integration of technology in the human body.
66Snuffleupagus- Thanks kahn. You reminded me about how much we don't know of our past. 11000 years. And we still heat water to get power
Acerola211- Hmm, I learned in my Anthropology 101 class that the first sedentary people (in the Middle East, at least) were not food producers (ex. farmers), but gatherers - Kottack's 13th edition Anthropology textbook says "Even today, wild wheats grows so densely in the Hilly Flanks that one person working just an hour with Neolithic tools can easily harvest a kilogram of wheat (Harlan and Zohary 1966). People would have had no reason to invent cultivation when wild grain was ample to feed them."
Acerola211- (Cont'd from my previous post) "...But after harvesting all that wheat, they'd need a place to put it. They could no longer maintain a nomadic lifestyle, since they'd need to stay close to their wheat." Also, on why agriculture developed (in the Middle East), the Kottack textbook says that "Early cultivation began as an attempt to copy, in a less favorable environment, the dense stands of wheat and barley that grew wild in the Hilly Flanks" (cont'd)
Ellis Rennie- @BitterBurst It's totally fine to eat any meat of fish raw, as long as it hasn't gone rancid, with the exception of chicken. Maybe a couple other exceptions too, but I eat my meat mostly raw and I'm healthy as a horse :)
Mind Gate- Sal you are rich and stuff, but remember your roots! Dont change... not that you have it seems. Just getting better! nice
Acerola211- (Cont'd from previous post) I think my professor talked about how the "dense" population lead to more disease, and how now these farmers had to work for life, and people organizing the farmers became richer so social and gender inequality was born, though I might not be remembering my lectures correctly.
Jack Poirier- I was looking at the title of this video in a confused way, thinking I've been spelling agriculture wrong all these years.
mm4317- Thanks! A good beginning for a series on farming... all very interesting and good. Maybe next lesson will be about the best way current day to use farm land (and/or individual properties) to produce enough diverse foods to feed a local community.
Stephen Deagle- I wonder if in the future human time and geological time will have to be counted together?
EdgeRetro- Kind of all makes you stop and think. It would be illogical to assume that homo sapiens is the final rung of the evolutionary ladder. Unless we manage to totally obliterate all life on the planet, there will likely emerge a new, smarter, more adaptive humanoid who will be amused at our limited capacities and barbaric ways.
Morkindie- Agriculture means we can make BEER!
Joseph R Loegering- @JosephLoegering For the too many Negative Notes, some falsely so called scientists out of touch reality and disobedient to Court Orders took me to court for my Religious Posts that the Judge would not accept because it was persecution, but them People disobeyed Court Ordered and forced drugs on me that were known to cause me harm and I still cannot get Medical attention for the internal bleeding that they caused, because they are like Scientists of Nazi Germany, totally insane and inhumane