Companion Resource
How Farming Planted Seeds for the Internet
Use this TedEd video to support reasons why early civilizations moved from hunting-gathering to farming as a major innovation for the current world we live in today. All the essential advancements are depicted throughout this video stemming from agriculture to include the development of cities, division of labor, governing institutions, and advanced technologies - without agriculture none of these advancements would have occurred.
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Author
Patricia Russac
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TedEd
Lessons Associated with this Resource
- More Than One Grain of Rice (Grades 6-8)
- A Common Thread: The Significance of Wool in Medieval England
- Growing Pulses
- From Foraging to Farming
- More Than One Grain of Rice (Grades 3-5)
- Growing a Nation Era 4: Into a New Millennium
- Growing a Nation Era 5b: Playing by the Rules
- Growing a Nation Era 1a: Seeds of Change
- A Search for the Source (Grades 6-8)
- Food Systems Feed the World