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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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