[Munqi]

So i got this big history exam coming up which is like a final exam in the finnish equivalent of high school. (not exactly the same, but the closest thing we have.) While i do know most of it quite well there are some things about our history that cant be found in the history books. Information that is often discussed here. Heres where you come in. I have some questions about things like advances in agriculture and oils relationship with wars etc.

First of all, the green revolution: According to wikipedia this occurred in 1945 but ive understood that most of the inventions that we associate with green revolution had infact been invented earlier than that. So what are key components of the green revolution and when were they first invented/implemented?

The second question i have is this: I often hear people talking here about oils role in both of the world wars. Could someone explain this? Are there any other conflicts that were (partly) caused by oil?

Third question: does anyone know where i could find population graphs of individual countries?

I'll probably come up with a few more but those are the most important ones.

[PenultimateManStanding]

The green revolution occurred in 1905 with the invention of phosphates. Wars for oil started with Napoleon. As for population growth, you can easily google that.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Munqi', 'S')o i got this big history exam coming up which is like a final exam in the finnish equivalent of high school. (not exactly the same, but the closest thing we have.) While i do know most of it quite well there are some things about our history that cant be found in the history books. Information that is often discussed here. Heres where you come in. I have some questions about things like advances in agriculture and oils relationship with wars etc.

First of all, the green revolution: According to wikipedia this occurred in 1945 but ive understood that most of the inventions that we associate with green revolution had infact been invented earlier than that. So what are key components of the green revolution and when were they first invented/implemented?

The second question i have is this: I often hear people talking here about oils role in both of the world wars. Could someone explain this? Are there any other conflicts that were (partly) caused by oil?

Third question: does anyone know where i could find population graphs of individual countries?

I'll probably come up with a few more but those are the most important ones.

[mercurygirl]

Re: #3, this link has a great chart of every country's population history as results of various censuses. Looks like they have a lot of other statistics and it's easy to navigate. GeoHive
The internet knows the answers to your other questions. Just search away and be specific.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I was just joshing, of course. I wouldn't want our Finnish friend to fail his history exam. With nothing but a bunch of deer rifles they fought off the Red Army. Spectacular!

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') was just joshing, of course. I wouldn't want our Finnish friend to fail his history exam. With nothing but a bunch of deer rifles they fought off the Red Army. Spectacular!

[Munqi]

Still hoping i'll get some more answers here. Especially about the wars.



I got one more question: Industrialisation: Was this preceded by any noticable improvement in agriculture and if so, what was it?

[Madpaddy]

Sorry to hear about the school shooting incident in Finland.

[TheDude]

Google Results 1 - 50 of about 43,000,000 for world war two oil. Right off the bat you get things like How Important Was Oil in World War II?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Munqi', 'S')till hoping i'll get some more answers here. Especially about the wars.

I got one more question: Industrialisation: Was this preceded by any noticable improvement in agriculture and if so, what was it?

[pup55]

I like James Burke's theory that most of the great "revolutions" in technology occur because of many different ingredients coming together at exactly the same time and place.

In the case of the so-called "green revolution" the ingredients were:

invention of industrial-scale agricultural equipment (McCormick/John Deere)
Application of the internal combustion engine (Ford)
Abundant cheap, farmable land (the US Midwest and the South American plains areas) unsettled enough so that the mass-production farming equipment could be used efficiently.
Phosphates (noted above) and nitrogen fertilizers (invented in Germany)

The last piece of the puzzle happened during the early 50's led by Borglum, the understanding of plant genetics which led to the modern hybrids which greatly increased yields.

in Iowa in the 1930's the average corn yield was about 50 bushels per acre (you will have to convert this to metric) but nowadays, the same land (actually a depleted version of the same land) is capable of 150.

[Munqi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'S')orry to hear about the school shooting incident in Finland.

[DarkDawg]

There should be plenty of info out there to answer your second question. Possible search terms:

oil and:

Saddam Hussein
Kuwait
scud missiles
Somalia
Iran
Nigeria
terrorism
jihad ism
imperialism

....well you get the idea. Good luck on your exam!