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| Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain
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| Plant Domestication | The adaptation of a plant through breeding in captivity to a life intimately associated with and advantageous to humans
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| First Agricultural Revolution | The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis
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| Hunters & Gatherers | The killing of wild animals and fish as well as the gathering of fruits, nuts, and and other plants for sustenance
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| Animal Domestication | The domestication of animals for selling and using as byproducts
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| Carl Sauer | American geographer who studied cultural origins and diffusion, specifically cultural ecology and hearths of agriculture
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| Subsistence Farming | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
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| Commercial Farming | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
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| Agrarian | People or societies that are farmers therefore promote agricultural interest
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| Economic Activity | Primary: Products closest to the ground
Secondary: Manufacturing of a primary product into something else
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| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
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| Shifting Cultivation | The moving of farm fields after several years in search of more productive soil after depleting the nutrients in the original field
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| Slash & Burn Farming | Another name for shifting cultivation so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegitation and burning the debris
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| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures
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| Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals
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