slash and burn farming is used to enrich the soil with nutrients from the burnt plant material, thus enabling farmers to farm on the land faster
According to a recent study, the ancient farming technique of “slash and burn” may have destroyed so many forests and put so much carbon dioxide into the air that this may have permanently altered the climate of the earth.
In our class this year we will be discussing where farming first originated, and why farming alone could be considered the most significant development in human history. More interestingly, we will consider theories that claim that much of human history has been determined by the simple reality of where farming first began, which gave certain people a huge advantage over others.
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