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By about 10,000 BCE, the wandering
peoples of the prehistoric world had
figured out that if you plant seeds,
they grow. They gave up roving and
hunting and began settling down to
The first become farmers. By the way…
farmers all toil on the land. Some
We ancient folk didn’t
of us had time for
artsy stuff, like
inventing pottery.
Hunter-gatherers dig
their way to CIVILIZATION
On the move
TRIBES of hunter-gatherers once drifted
from place to place, looking for animals
to hunt and plants to gather. People never
had the chance to build a settled community
because they had to keep moving in
search of food and water.
What came after…
A community might give By 8000 BCE, farming had
security, but for the first sprung up in east Asia and
time people faced SOCIAL ISSUES the Americas. MAIZE, squashes,
such as garbage disposal, millet, and rice were top of
overcrowding, and fast- the menu in these regions.
spreading diseases.
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