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In some areas, such as agriculture, modern technology still has much to learn from the achievements of the Incas. The amount of land under cultivation in the A
by beloch 13y ago
In some areas, such as agriculture, modern technology still has much to learn from the achievements of the Incas. The amount of land under cultivation in the Andes is still a fraction of what it once was.
- ghshephard 13y agoThe Green Revolution [1] advanced modern agriculture far beyond any historical antecedents (rumored or documented) that I've ever heard about - but I would be delighted to hear otherwise. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
- claudius 13y ago> The amount of land under cultivation in the Andes is still a fraction of what it once was. And yet I haven’t heard of famines in the past few years – which, given Europe’s history before ‘modern technology’ came along, should happen every now and then with the older methods. Certainly modern agriculture does have some drawbacks, and with an appropriate set of priorities, you can probably claim that it is worse than what we had 200 years ago, but it works surprisingly well at feeding seven billion people while at the same time only requiring a tiny fraction of said seven billion people to actually be employed in agriculture.