many centuries cavemen earn their living by hunting and gathering, and only five thousand years ago to replace the appropriating economy (in which a man was taking all the necessary ready-made from mother nature) it produces.Man domesticated dog, learned to cultivate the land, using primitive tools.Gradually fishery developed, a new tool for plowing, which replaced the hoe, allowed a person to move from hoe to slash and burn agriculture, increase yields and facilitate the hard work of the first ploughmen.
First Steps
oldest hoes were two sticks, one of which is tied at the bottom of the other crosswise.Thus man was the prototype of the modern tools.Work was not easy for them, so that gradually began to be engaged in farming men (this is due to the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy).For the cultivation of the land it required a lot of time, and people understood: it is necessary to change something.
Harrow-sukovatka, a tool for plowing, which replaced the hoe - a regular stick with multiple knots.At first it just dragged on the ground, thus raising the lower layers of soil.Later the base of the stick began to tie something like a rope with which to pull the harrow was much easier.And the type of farming has changed: now people are not simply raising the lower layers of the soil up, and put on a specially prepared for processing.The forest was selected relatively flat piece of land, then it is cleared of trees.Felled trunks were burned, and the ashes fertilize the soil, and only then began to sow crops.Usually with such allotment received two or three harvests, and then he just threw starting all over again on another site.
But this man did not stop.New tools for plowing, which replaced the hoe and harrow-sukovatke, pushed and slash and burn method of farming.
plow farming
parallel developed agriculture and animal husbandry, so that the use of livestock farm work was a matter of time.Man tame horse was originally a means of transportation, to use its power in a plowing began much later.The next step in the development of agriculture has become another tool for plowing, which replaced the hoe and harrow-sukovatke - slight wooden plow.First it was a stick, which is attached to two sticks less to the mold.One end Rahl tied to an animal kept for another farmer.Naturally, the use of cattle greatly simplified the process of plowing, and this method of tillage improved productivity.
impact on society
Now it does not matter what tools for plowing, which replaced the hoe, used by man.It is important how they influenced the development of society.Initially, the human collective dominated matriarchy, the cult of women, considered the foundation of all the earth.But with the evolution of agriculture it became clear that all the work the weaker sex can not perform, so gradually there was a transition to the patriarchal relations.The new society has played a major role man.And to this day keeps the foundations of humanity, which owe their existence to the transition from hoe to more complex types of farming.
conclusion about the role of the different tools in the development of agriculture we can argue for a long time.But we can say one thing: a tool for plowing, which replaced the hoe could radically turn the idea of the productive economy and the human collective.So harrow-sukovatka and wooden plow - much more than just a device for digging the earth - they are steps in the development of society and civilization.
