Who would've thought that farmer's 10,000 or some odd years ago could have helped civilization to what it is today? Farming started in the near east about 10,000 years ago. It began in areas that had an abundance of food so it just came to them. Without it, civilization would not be what it is today. Agriculture led to advances such as, technology, settlement, and government.
Agriculture required you stay in one place so this meant people had to stop their nomadic ways. In order to tend their animals and crops people had to settle down. Now they didn't have to cross hot deserts, or climb steep mountains (Cereals). "The packs of hunters that had roamed about in search of game now settled in villages (Cities). Imagine what it would be like today if we were still a nomadic people. After people started settli
Agriculture is a very important step in the advancement of civilization, as we know it. Out of it came important advances such as various technologies, writing, and settlement. Now the first seed that was planted can be appreciated even more for all that it started.
ng down urbanization started to occur. Most of the early cities started out as farming towns then evolved into bigger metropolises (Cities). With more food being produced than needed the population increased greatly causing the cities to expand (Cereals). Without agriculture people wouldn't have settled in one place and none of these important things would've come to be.
Even Government and law came from agriculture. Farming put into effect specialization. Some people tended fields, and some were herdsmen and cared for animals (Cereals). In large cities specialization was
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