The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Usage examples of agriculture.

But the third great transformation, and the most important, after agriculture, Goudsblom said, was industrialisation, the union of fire with water, to produce in the first instance steam, harnessing a new form of energy which enabled machines of unprecedented size and power to perform certain routine skills much better and much faster than was possible by hand.

Old World, then, the location and timing of agriculture is understood, as are the plants and animals on which it was based.

Pleistocene Age, when the world warmed up and people became much more mobile, and that the cultivation of wild species, before agriculture proper, encouraged the birth of more children.

Until that point, agriculture had flourished between the Tigris and the Euphrates for thousands of years.

But Europe by the thirteenth century, say, boasted great cities, thriving agriculture and trade, sophisticated government and legal systems.

Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.

North and Thomas note that a new system of agriculture was introduced in these years in Europe, namely the change from the two-field system to the three-field system.

The rival view was that true riches lay in trade, agriculture and industry, where wealth was truly earned and productively used.

Britain involved in agriculture, there were well over a million in trade and manufacturing and this number was increasing dramatically.

Politics, law, agriculture, commerce, mathematical and physical sciences, and the arts, were all included.

Let the boy who wants to be a farmer carry with him the memory of successful Negro farmers and of a Negro who knew enough about scientific agriculture to teach him to compete with the best white farmers in the country.

But in the South, where Negro labor is plenty and agriculture is the chief occupation, the Negro will always have a practical monopoly, and his opportunities in all the trades in the North, as well as in the South, will increase in proportion as he becomes an educated, thrifty, law-abiding land-owner.

He does four-fifths of the agricultural labor of the South and thereby adds four-fifths to the wealth of the South derived from agriculture, the leading Southern industry.

Professional, Agriculture, trade and transportation, manufactures and personal service.

We must not forget that agriculture is what we might call the staple industry of the South.