Stages of Society Stages of Society 1. 1. Hunting and Gathering Hunting and Gathering –– nomads nomads 2. 2. Agriculture Agriculture –– Horticulture, intensive Horticulture, intensive agriculture agricultur
Those industries, including agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, manufacturing, construction, and energy, contributed around 31 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) during the mid-1990s, while the services industries contributed 60 percent. Goods-producing industries provided around a quarter of ...
The river deltas of Vietnam's two great rivers, the Red River in the north and the Mekong in the south, dominate those two regions. Both deltas feature irrigated rice agriculture that depends on the annual monsoons and river water that is distributed through immense and complicated irrigation...
Once more, growing numbers of people, burgeoning cities, and ambitious governments were demanding food, goods, and services—a demand that was met by both old and new methods of production. Inagriculture, the shift toward commercial crops such as wool and grains, the investment of capital, and...
except onsoilsthat are particularly poor or where the low height of the forest allows sunlight to penetrate to the soil surface. In those lowland areas where drier conditions prevail,agricultureand the burning of vegetation tofacilitatehuntinghave long sustained agrasslandenvironment(for example, in th...
In addition to peat, Northern Ontario consists largely of brown podzolic (mineral-covered, leached) soils unsuitable for agriculture, except for two clay belts in the Timiskaming and Cochrane farming areas. In Southern Ontario, glaciers left a fertile gray-brownpodzolic soilover most of the region...
the most important wholesale markets of Italy are still in Milan. The city is located at a nexus of the traffic routes of the Po River valley and lies on the borderline between the advanced agriculture of the fertile irrigated plains of the south and the limited agriculture of the north. Mi...
In the early 1960s the Philippines unsuccessfully revived its long-standing claim to the territory. Plantation agriculture began early in the 20th century and produces tobacco, coconuts, and oil palm. Rice and rubber are grown on the western coastal plain. Although wet paddy (rice) predominates ...
Riau’s population consists primarily ofMalaypeoples, andIslamis the predominantreligion. TheMinangkabau,Batak, and Chinesecommunitiesare among the most prominent minority groups. Agriculture is a major occupation in Riau, with rice, corn (maize), cassava, soybeans,copra(dried coconut meat), gambier...
Zheng had tried to establish ties with the Chinese communities in the Philippines to build support for his continued efforts to restore Ming rule in China, but he died suddenly in June 1662 before he could act further on any of his plans. After his death, his son Zheng Jing (Cheng Ching...