Technology

Tyler Holland
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
14 November 2018

Agricultural Societies

In the past, countries that are typically more technologically advanced have a history of coming from a society that was more agriculturally advanced. not only agriculturally, but also the whole scope of what is discussed in Guns, Germs, and Steel including; the domestication of animals, strong irrigation systems, and obviously "geographical luck." some easy ways to tell this are, if we are talking about the domestication of animals, you can see that in most societies the first domesticated animals were goats sheep and chickens; used for mainly food and clothing purposes, allowing societies to settle down and be less worried about food in the Winter. On that topic, we discussed in seminar about how societies in colder climates might have more indoor time to think and create, we can see that in Winter times that people obviously did have more indoors time if they were able to have a constant food supply on hand if they had domestic sheep and goats and chicken that they could breed and have enough of to not have to go out in the cold searching for food as much. Later with the domestication of horses soon after, transportation became easier, people didn't have to spend so much time exploring on foot, not only taking more time. but also hard on the body. Being able to ride horses around made it easier for people to not only travel, but when hunting larger faster creatures they were able to pursue (or escape in some cases) a lot easier. For the topic of irrigation, there were obviously ups and downs. The first irrigation systems required people to be stationary, and near a decently sized body of water. some good reasons to have an irrigation system were that people were obviously in a better state of constant hydration, meaning less worrying about water and when they needed to go find some, people in a better state of hydration can also focus easier. Another obvious bonus was, a lot of early technological advancements included things that required water, (Irrigation system probably helps there). Another big bonus was that in most early societies with irrigation systems, the lets just say rivers usually contained some sort of edible plant or animal, which made it another good source for food which helped the development of things like fishing rods, nets, and in some places, eventually things like spears and harpoon guns. However, it is easy to admit that there were obvious downsides to having an irrigation system. There was the constant possibility of a flood due to the necessity of closeness to the water also in some cases dangerous animals who need to come to the water for something to drink. The thing called "Geographical Luck" is pretty self-explanatory. The luck that societies had by being placed on the map near to some resources necessary for their society to not only survive but advance technologically was great, even their lack of certain things caused them to become resourceful and learn about things they never would have otherwise known.


https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/domestication/ 
https://www.naturalhealthnews.uk/diet-2/2013/11/drinking-water-improves-focus-reaction-time/ 

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