How application of scientific knowledge has made agriculture possible in arid
zones, dry lands and hills?
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There was nothing natural or inevitable about the development of
agriculture. Because cultivation of plants requires more labor than hunting
and gathering, we can assume that Stone Age humans gave up their former ways
of life reluctantly and slowly. In fact, peoples such as the Bushmen of
Southwest Africa still follow them today. But between about 8000 and 3500
B.C., increasing numbers of humans shifted to dependence on cultivated crops
and domesticated animals for their subsistence. By about 7000 B.C.,
agriculture. Because cultivation of plants requires more labor than hunting
and gathering, we can assume that Stone Age humans gave up their former ways
of life reluctantly and slowly. In fact, peoples such as the Bushmen of
Southwest Africa still follow them today. But between about 8000 and 3500
B.C., increasing numbers of humans shifted to dependence on cultivated crops
and domesticated animals for their subsistence. By about 7000 B.C.,
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