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An important early Chinese book on agriculture is the Qimin Yaoshu of AD 535, written by Jia Sixie. [88] Jia's writing style was straightforward and lucid relative to the elaborate and allusive writing typical of the time.
The book was composed from 1625 to 1628 [7] and published in 1639, [8] totalling 700,000 words. [ 9 ] Complete Treatise on Agriculture summarises many of the agricultural experiences and techniques of the ancient Chinese working people, [ 10 ] citing over 300 kinds of ancient works and documents.
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. [1]
The Arab Agricultural Revolution [a] was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries). The agronomic literature of the time, with major books by Ibn Bassal and Ibn al-'Awwam , demonstrates the extensive diffusion of useful plants to Medieval Spain ( al-Andalus ), and the growth in ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "History books about agriculture" ... Unintended Lessons of Revolution
7000 BC – agriculture had reached southern Europe with evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Aegean. 7000 BC – Cultivation of wheat , sesame , barley , and eggplant in Mehrgarh (modern day Pakistan ).
The Nabataean Agriculture is the most influential book on agriculture in Arabic. [22] Dozens of writers used it as a source, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century. [68] It was the first agronomical work to reach al-Andalus (modern Spain and Portugal), and became an important reference for the writers of the Andalusi agricultural corpus.