Agriculture

Agriculture

 

Agriculture is the science of food production. Historically, it places itself at intermittent periods of intervaled progression throughout the history of humanity. Prior to agriculture, though, there was no standing or widely accepted means by which to attain food outside of hunting and foraging. The people of this early period were referred to as hunter-gatherers, and with that name, they can be accurately described as persons who would hunt for food where it could be found and also gather food from where it grew in the wild.

This way of life, though still present today, was followed by the development of sedentary living. Eventually, humanity came to develop the capacity to grow food in organized systems. The first systems were the initial developments of agriculture. They entailed plotting, irrigation, weather forecasting, planning, and organizing to a great extent, so as to keep pace with the growth in human population that resulted as a consequence of this new form of life. Civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus River Valley all began as human beings started to shift away from nomadic lifestyles into societal organizations that inevitably led to government and other organized systems of community. This transition from the wild to the manipulating of different earthly environments, so as to allow for a different mode of survival, was one that saw the dawn of modern civilization take shape and bloom into the sociocultural complexity we see today. In articulating these developments, they come to stand as innate principalities applicable across an array of modern knowledges. Wisdom from this time would be viewed as an integral element across the broad spectrum of behaviors seen at all levels of society. For this reason, survivalism, in this light, that has perpetuated to the modern day is consistently characterized as integral and applicable, given the inherent understanding that whatever the behavior may be, its observance has allowed for the development and culmination of the modern behavior we see today.

Pursuing wisdom in the throngs of historical examples, such as the above, is a feat worthy of habit, as the philosophies of early man are wrought with examples from agriculture that have made their way into the modern day and continue to show an inherent capacity for profundity and prosperity.