Question

How did human start agriculture?in what ways did it affect the social structure.in500

Answer 1

Sometime around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors began trying their hand at farming. First, they grew wild varieties of crops like peas, lentils and barley and herded wild animals like goats and wild oxen. ... In other words, farming was long believed to have been started by one group of ancestral humans.

Answer 2

Historically it is recorded that humans or rather man started agriculture in the Ancient Egypt and in Mesopotamia.

The following are factor that led to agriculture;

• Hunting and gathering had become tiresome - Sometimes the hunters could come home empty handed due to adverse weather conditions that led to extinction of some animals and plants.
• Human and animals competed for food - Man and animals competed for the available food.

           Effects of agriculture on the social structure.

1. Increase in human population - An increase in human population is recorded due to surplus food production.
2. Development of a more settled lifestyle - Humans no longer went out to hunt or gather. They now focused on agriculture in a settled manner.