13 sentences with 'agriculture'
Example sentences and phrases with the word agriculture and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, the Greeks did not invent "civilisation" per se; they inherited things like agriculture and writing from their neighbours. »
• « In these areas, people invented the most crucial technology necessary for the development of civilisation: agriculture. »
• « Beginning around 9,500 BC, humans in a handful of regions of the world discovered agriculture, i.e., the deliberate cultivation of edible plants. People discovered that certain seeds could be planted and reliably cultivated. »
• « It is impossible to overstate the importance of these changes. Even fairly primitive agriculture can produce fifty times more caloric energy than hunting and gathering. »
• « The very basis of human life is how much energy we can get from food; with agriculture and animal domestication, it was possible for families to grow much larger and for overall population levels to increase dramatically. »
• « Likewise, Germania was supposed to be too cold, too wet and too infertile to support organised agriculture and settlement. »
• « The early Middle Ages, from around 500 to 800 CE, functioned largely on the basis of subsistence agriculture and a barter economy. »
• « Things began to change around 1000 CE. The main causes of these changes were twofold: the end of large-scale invasions from outside the European heartlands, and changes in agriculture that seem very simple from a contemporary perspective, but were revolutionary at the time. »
• « That 500% population increase was due to two simple changes: the methods by which agriculture worked and the ebb of large-scale violence brought about by the end of foreign invasions. »
• « Like settled societies everywhere in the pre-modern era, the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia depended on agriculture. »
• « Most people were farmers and most of the wealth was derived from taxes and fees associated with agriculture. »
• « In societies that depended entirely on agriculture for their very survival, these adverse climatic conditions meant that social and political stability was severely affected. »