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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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-farming-planted-seeds-for-the-internet-patricia-russac

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