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The day humans stopped chasing dinner and started planting it instead.
means The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock to produce food and other goods, rather than gathering or hunting them from the wild.
from From Latin agricultura, a fusion of ager ('field') and cultura ('cultivation, tending'), itself from colere ('to till, to care for'). The Romans welded the word together with the same practicality they brought to roads and aqueducts — 'field-tending' as a single compact concept. It passed into English more or less intact in the 1400s, already carrying the sense of a settled, deliberate practice rather than a lucky foraging trip.
- timeline
- Began roughly 12,000 years ago, independently, on six continents
- side effect
- Enabled cities, taxes, and writing to invoice the taxes
- wheat math
- One wild grass, selectively bred, now feeds billions
- land use
- Covers nearly half of all habitable land on Earth