Pre AP Agriculture Hearths

Key Issue 1 Chapter 10 of AP Human Geography next semester

Question:

• If we lived in Marietta during the hunting and gathering period what types of plants and animals might we have eaten? Use whatever knowledge of the area you might have or guess if you have to.

Let’s define:

• Hearth

• Hinterland

• Diffusion

Agricultural Origins & Regions• Origins of agriculture– Hunters and gatherers– Transition to sedentary lifestyle.

Jarmo and other early agricultural settlements.

• Invention of agriculture leads to the “Big 4” primary effects:– Urbanization– Social Stratification– Occupational specialization– Increase in world population

• Locate agricultural hearths.• Read Key Issue 1, Chapter 10 in APHG

textbook.• Explain vegetative planting vs. seed agriculture

vs. animal domestication.• Create annotated world map of vegetative

planting, seed agriculture and animal domestication.

Agricultural Hearths

• First, label one map Vegetative Planting and the other map Seed Hearths and Animal Domestication.

• Next we will make a key and then we will create our annotated maps using the maps that follow.

Vegetative Planting Hearths

Fig. 10-1: There were several main hearths, or centers of origin, for vegetative crops (roots & tubers, etc.), from which the crops diffused to other areas. Carl Sauer suggested that Southeast Asia was a primary hearth.

Seed Agriculture Hearths

Fig. 10-2: Seed agriculture also originated in several hearths and diffused from those elsewhere.

• Carl Sauer. – Cultural geography.– Seed hearths.

• Jared Diamond– Geographic Determinism.

• Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup. – Both had (differing) ideas on the relationship

between food and increasing population.

Important names in agriculture and human geography

Thomas Malthus on Population

Malthus predicted:

• population would outrun food supply

• decrease in food per person.

Assumptions• Populations grow

exponentially.• Food supply grows

arithmetically.• Food shortages and chaos

inevitable.

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Boserup: SubsistenceAgriculture and

Population

• “Necessity is the mother of invention”

• http://playroom.crescentschool.org/geography/Human/UnitVAgricultural/esterboserup.htm

• Intensification of Food Production

• Was an optimist… “where there is a will, there is a way”.

• May even have a surplus. Surplus is key for trade!

Comparison of the two theories

• Boserup– Population determines

agricultural methods.– People will find a way

(inventions) to produce more food… this is called intensification.

– High population can be an advantage… forces people to invent/ adjust.

– Can’t change lifestyle, so we need to change subsistence methods.

• Malthus– Agriculture determines

population.– People will begin to die

off when the food supply can’t keep up.

– High population a problem, agriculture can’t keep up.

– Deals with food supply and population, not just subsistence agriculture like Boserup.

AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY SAMPLE FRQs

Shifting Cultivation Question: FRQ 2012 #2Malthus Theory: FRQ 2011 #2

• http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2004.html

– Sample Responses: Writing more does not mean your response will be scored better. You MUST answer the question that is being asked.