Our Journey From Hunters to Farmers.

Take time to marvel at the things in your surroundings:

technology, farming, clothes, furniture, and food.

Remember that our ancestors played an important role in shaping our present.

10,000 years ago, few of them had to make a choice between shifting to farming or remaining as hunter-gatherers.

This decision turned out to be the deciding factor that meant more food, a larger population, diverse professions, domestication of animals, and the rise of diseases.

It gave an edge to the haves against the have-nots. Agriculture changed the following:

More calories per acre.

Crops such as wheat and barley were grown first.

The earliest agricultural site known to us is the Fertile Crescent (Eastern Turkey, Iraq, and southwestern Iran). Hunter-gatherers were known to travel 8 miles per day in search of food.

Shifting to agriculture equates to more food being available in the same area, a larger concentration of food.

This saved energy and gave larger yields to the effort. A surplus of food could be stored to feed more mouths and a greater population.

Old-school family planning.

Imagine a female hunter-gatherer carrying two kids a year apart through the forest while shifting camp.

This would be risky, and there would be a chance of being injured and left behind.

Hence, hunter-gatherers planned their birthing period for each mother to be around 4 years.

This is ideal for one child(age 4 ) to follow their mum carrying the child. An agriculturist kept a gap of 2 years in between.

A lot of jobs to choose from.

A hunter-gatherer primarily spent their day hunting, gathering, and shifting camp. It wasn't necessary for everyone to be an agriculturist in a modern society. Since surplus food meant not everybody needed to farm, this gave an edge to the agriculturists. An agricultural society with a greater population needed soldiers, artisans, priests, and a ruler. They could easily snatch resources from those who had better technology and trained soldiers over the band of hunter-gatherers.

Domestication of animals.

People realized they could selectively breed animals to satisfy their needs.

Take, for example, cattle, dogs, goats, pigs, and sheep.

Cattle were used for milk, to plow fields, and for meat and fiber.

Such animals looked different than their wild counterparts.

Cows became smaller and were chosen for their milk-producing quantity.

Dogs were bred from the wolf for hunting, and we have a variety of breeds today.