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Pros And Cons Of The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

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The Neolithic 'Agricultural' Revolution greatly impacted our way of life today as well as when it was occurring. I believe that without it, we would not have achieved such a superabundance of available food, and we would not have made all the significant technological advantages that we see today. It changed us from primitive, barbaric masochists to ingenious, well-off farmers who were on their way to starting anew.

Hunting and gathering used to be what all humans lived off of. Therefore, if their source of food and saturation migrated, they would migrate as well. Some of the hunter-gatherers eventually learned how to harvest eggs and milk from their respective animals and they became the first pastoral societies. Even though they …show more content…

They could not build any permanent settlements and basically mitigated any chance of forming a full-scale community, where they could all work and invent together, instead of just warring with each other. Eventually, when humans learned how to plant seeds in the ground, they started to settle down in areas which constituted of lush forests, fertile land, a stable water source, and grazing areas for their animals (if they were pastoral civilizations). Eventually, farmers produced so much excess food that not everyone needed to be a farmer anymore. Some of the population adopted other careers and still got a superfluous of food. Eventually, caste systems appeared and the first societies and economic classes appeared. The more temerarious, ostentatious, gregarious, and self-aggrandizing ones became the first pharaohs and leaders, who were the most often to become significant leaders and masters of grandiloquence, and the ones that chose to proselytize became the first priests and prophets. Even the iota of farmers still left supplied enough food for the whole population, even in arid environments i.e the Egyptians, and most were not the tiniest bit perturbed at that fact. Sometimes, choler brewed between the plebeians and hierarchy, but they contributed to history as well. Without agriculture, none of this would be possible and the slow dilapidation of hunter-gatherer numbers

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