BIG HISTORY 2

ACTIVITY 7.2: Reflection: AGRICULTURE AND RELIGION (Big History Project)

Directions: Using the threshold card below, supply the appropriate answer by providing FIVE (5)
SENTENCES to explain or justify your answer. Other than researching about this particular
article, you are required to watch a BBC documentary entitled THE DAY PICTURES WERE BORN,
to grasp a different/better perspective about the topic.

REFLECTION Name:
Agriculture and Religion Course:
Year & Section: Schedule:
Article Analysis Did religion sow the seeds of civilization?

As humans abandoned foraging, farming

1.Did primitive or Neolithic forms of
religious gatherings have a
fundamental role in farming
technologies – creating the need for
settlements and societies?
claims the vast majority of credit in
explaining the birth of civilizations. But what
if it wasn’t farming at all? A recent discovery
in the limestone pillar ruins at Göbekli Tepe,
Turkey, archaeological evidence suggests
that this was a temple. Almost 12,000 years
ago nomadic tribes made the pilgrimage
here to worship, share community, or
perhaps to simply stand in awe. It would
have taken hundreds of people to construct
Göbekli Tepe. Yet there were no rooms built
for dwelling; no hearths for fire or cooking.
Water was about three miles away. There
was simply nothing about the site to suggest
anything domestic. As exploration of this
site continues, its Big History meaning is still
being debated. Most notably, did religious
gatherings have a fundamental role in
farming technologies — creating the need
for settlements and society? Do we need to
reevaluate our thinking?
Agriculture and technological advances grow in
tandem with societal growth from time to time.
Farming started an improvement process, which meant
that more people could be kept in a given land area
because more energy could be obtained per land.
While the agricultural revolution undoubtedly
contributed significantly to the development of
increasingly complex societies, there is some debate as
to why certain agricultural societies eventually
developed into advanced civilizations.
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2. Do you think it is truly agriculture Agriculture is becoming more coordinated in the

that is responsible for the global natural pecking order and the global market, while
connections that we have right now or environmental, sanitation and quality, and creature
is it something else? government assistance guidelines are also having an
increasing impact on the area. It faces new challenges
in meeting developing food needs, being globally
serious, and delivering high-quality rural results.
3.Choose one vital point raised in Pope The pollution caused by residue, including dangerous
Francis’ Laudato Si and explain how it waste present in various areas, must also be
can greatly affect the Filipino’s considered. Every year, hundreds of millions of tons of
perspective about agriculture along waste are generated from homes and businesses,
with care for the environment. construction and demolition sites, clinical, electronic,
and industrial sources, much of it non-biodegradable,
highly toxic, and radioactive. The earth, our home, is
starting to resemble a massive pile of filth. The elderly
in many parts of the world lament the fact that once
beautiful landscapes are now covered in trash.

My Commitment: To petition all my knowledge in real life and appreciate things

that surrounds me.
Signature/Affirmation: Acknowledge