First farmers: Breakthroughs to agriculture to end

This chapter was incredibly interesting and was a way of noticing how far we have come. In the "Breakthroughs to Agriculture" section we learn about the unfolding of agriculture and the speed in which it all happened. Agriculture replaced the basic "gathering and hunting" and transformed it into a more complex system that cultivated plants and tamed animals. Agriculture created a new type of relationship between humankind and living things. Homo sapiens directed the progress of evolution and changed and tamed nature for the benefit of human kind. A lot was in perfect timing for evolution and agriculture became effective when the last ice age ended. This chapter showed us the variations of agriculture and regions turned fully agricultural within as few as 500 years. Agriculture spread globally and with the combination of diffusion and migration, agriculture jumped to each region and spread language by doing so. The agricultural revolution led to an increase in human population which created different types of societies, different roles for people, and different levels of authority. After reading this chapter I was intrigued to see how far we've come.

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