origins of agriculture

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Introduction
Research techniques
How agriculture and domestication began
- Earliest beginnings
- Early development
  - Southwest Asia
  - The Americas
  - East Asia
  - Europe
Early agricultural societies
- Sumer
- The Nile valley
- Mesoamerica
- South America
- North America
Agriculture in ancient Asia
- China
  - Early history
  - The classical-imperial era
  - Tools and techniques
  - Land use
- Korea
- Japan
- The Indian subcontinent
  - Early historic period
  - The Mughal century (c. 1600 ce)
- Southeast Asia
Improvements in agriculture in the West: 200 bce to 1600 ce
- The Roman epoch: 200 bce to 600 ce
  - The farm
  - Farm implements
  - Cropping systems
  - Harvesting and processing
  - Livestock
- The medieval period: 600 to 1600 ce
  - Agricultural advances
    - Open-field system
    - Plows and plowing
    - Hand tools
    - New lands and crops
  - Agricultural recession
    - The Netherlands
    - England
    - Spain
    - Italy
    - France
    - Germany
Scientific agriculture: the 20th century
- Developments in power: the internal-combustion engine
  - The tractor
  - Unit machinery
    - Grain combine
    - Mechanized equipment for corn
    - Mechanized equipment for cotton
    - Tomato-harvesting equipment
  - Automobiles, trucks, and airplanes
- New crops and techniques
  - New crops
    - The soybean
    - Sorghum
    - The sugar beet
  - New techniques
    - Terracing
    - Irrigation
    - Dry farming
    - Vertical Farming and the Future
- New strains: genetics
  - Early work in genetics
  - Maize, or corn
  - Wheat
  - Rice
  - The Green Revolution
  - Genetic engineering
- Animal breeding
  - Hogs
  - Sheep
  - Beef cattle
  - Artificial breeding
- Electricity in agriculture
  - Electrical cooperatives
  - Modern applications
- Pest and disease control in crops
  - Beginnings of pest control
  - Pesticides as a panacea: 1942–62
  - Integrated control
- Economics, politics, and agriculture

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