Question

Write an detailed account on the origin of agriculture and civilisation

Answer 1

There was nothing natural and 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, Infact, peoples such as the Bushman of Southwest Africa still follow them today. But between about 8000 and 3500 B.C., increasing number of humans shifted t dependence on cultivated crops and domesticated animals for their subsistence, By about 7000 B.C., their tools have advanced sufficiently for cultivating peoples to support towns with over one thousand people.