What is farming?
Q: What is farming?
A: Farming is growing crops and keeping animals for food and raw materials, which is a part of agriculture.
Q: How old is agriculture?
A: Agriculture started thousands of years ago, but no one knows for sure how old it is.
Q: What was the result of the development of farming?
A: The development of farming gave rise to the Neolithic Revolution as people gave up nomadic hunting and became settlers in cities.
Q: Where did agriculture and domestication probably start?
A: Agriculture and domestication probably started in the Fertile Crescent (the Nile Valley, the Levant and Mesopotamia). The area called Fertile Crescent is now in the countries of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt.
Q: What were some of the first crops people grew?
A: Wheat and barley are some of the first crops people grew.
Q: Why may have people started farming? A: People may have started farming because the weather and soil began to change. Farming can feed many more people than hunter-gatherers can feed on the same amount of land which allowed human population to grow to such large numbers as there are today.
