Introduction to the interrelationship between human beings and the earth in history

Ⅰ Primitive Agricultural Society Period:

About 10,000 to 5,000 years ago is the primitive agricultural society, equivalent to the Neolithic Age.

Ⅱ Traditional Agricultural Society Period

After the Primitive Agricultural Society and before the Industrial Revolution is the Traditional Agricultural Society Period, which is equivalent to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Person-land relations in primitive agricultural society

The emergence of primitive agriculture marks the stage of the history of human society into primitive agricultural society.

1. Humans began to utilize agricultural technology to develop land and biological resources to supplement natural food.

2. The main technological means were based on ground stone tools (such as stone axes, stone adzes, stone shovels, etc.) and beaten stone tools (such as stone hammers, stone flake stone tools, etc.).

3. Agricultural production was also the simplest production, but it marked a fundamental change in the way man-land relations functioned.

Root cause: the extreme backwardness of the society's production technology and means of production.

⊕ The natural resources utilized are mainly climatic, land and biological.

⊕ The emergence of primitive agriculture marks the stage of the history of human society into primitive agricultural society.

⊕ The products of society are mainly the necessities of human beings for clothing, food, housing and transportation, mostly primary products and primary processed products.

⊕ Wastes generated in the process of production and life consumption are degradable and assimilable by natural systems.

(ii) Human-earth relations in traditional agricultural societies

The relationship between human beings and nature in traditional agricultural societies is basically harmonious

1. The energy used in human life and production is mainly bio-energy, in particular, the heat provided by the combustion of plants is the most important source of energy for diet and heating.

2. The natural resources utilized by human beings are mainly climatic, land and biological resources.

3. Social products are mainly the necessities of human beings for clothing, food, housing and transportation, mostly primary products and primary processed products.

4. Wastes generated in the process of people's production and life consumption are also all degradable and assimilable by the natural system.

The fundamental difference between traditional agriculture and primitive agriculture:

The man-made material and energy inputs per unit of land and the resulting biological output per unit of land in traditional agriculture have been substantially increased, and the outputs and inputs of material and energy are basically balanced.

The main human-land relations problems in traditional agricultural societies:

Land erosion and land degradation caused by irrational use of land, as well as man's powerlessness in the face of natural disasters.

Causes of the problem:

Technological structural improvements and socio-economic growth have mainly led to a further expansion of the population scale, which continues to exceed the natural carrying capacity of the natural system, especially the land, and puts the relationship between human beings and nature in a constant state of tension.