how do agricuture and herding help in human progress. explain.
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Impact of agriculture
The impact of agriculture has been profound on humanity, most clearly in terms of population. This is because breeding plants and animals has significantly increased the availability of human consumable calories per square kilometer. One way to think about it is that we replaced things that weren’t consumable by humans with things that were. Through techniques like irrigation, we were also able to make things grow where they might not have before.
To put this in perspective, before the agricultural revolution experts estimate that there were six to ten million people, which is about how many hunter-foragers the Earth could sustain. By the time of the Roman Empire, about 10,000 years later, the world population had grown over 25-fold to 250 million. Fast forward 2000 years to the present, and the population has grown another 28-fold to seven billion. In roughly 10,000 to 15,000 years, advances in agriculture have allowed the human population to become roughly 1000 times larger!
Agriculture also has had environmental impacts. Farmers used complex tools to cultivate and irrigate their fields and to build settlements. To expand their amount of usable land, agriculturalists cleared forests using the slash and burn technique; they would remove a ring of bark from the trees, drying out the trees and allowing them to burn more quickly. The ash from the trees acted as a fertilizer for the soil.
Pastoralism also brought challenges to the environment and people. Herds of animals concentrated in one area could overgraze the land, ultimately rendering it unusable or subject to erosion. In addition, with a closer proximity to animals, came a higher likelihood that diseases could be transmitted from animals to humans.^3
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By actively managing their food supplies, agricultural societies were able to produce more food than hunter-foragers and support denser populations. Having a large population nearby made it worthwhile for farmers to grow more food than they needed for themselves, as they could trade this surplus for other goods. For non-farmers, this meant that they could focus on making other goods and trading these goods for food and other things. People could specialize—focus on doing one thing—which led to increased productivity. Increased productivity led to the creation of better buildings, tools, weapons, and also to the rise of governments to oversee this activity and military forces to protect people and resources.
Many population centers evolved into the first wave of city-states that emerged within a few thousand years of the agricultural revolution. Eventually those states began to have complex bureaucracies to tax and administer their people, a significant catalyst for the birth of writing, which was transformational for civilization.
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