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Some time after 10, 000 BC, people made the first real
attempt to control the world they lived , through agriculture. Over
thousands of years, they began to depend less
on could be hunted or
gathered from the wild, and more on animals they
had raised and crops they had sown.
Farming produced more food per person hunting and gathering, so people were able to
raise more children. And, as more children were born, more food (need). Agriculture gave
people their first experience of the power of technology (change) lives.
By about 6000 BC, people (discover) the best crops
to grow and animals to raise. Later, they learned to work with
the (season), planting at the right time and, in dry areas, (make)use of annual floods to irrigate(灌溉)their fields.
This style of farming lasted for quite a
long time. Then, with rise of science, changes began. New methods (mean) that fewer people worked in farming. In
the last century or so, these changes have
accelerated. New power machinery and artificial fertilizers(化肥)have now totally transformed a way of life that started in the
Stone Age.
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