The Agricultural Revolution

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans lived as foragers. They moved from one place to another in search for animals to hunt, which made them nomadic.Nomads were knowledgeable about the environment. They knew so much about the environment because they moved from one place to another in search for food. Because they were moving from one place to another, the early foragers controlled their population. They made sure that their population was small, which would help them to travel quickly. Due to climate change, the weather became warmer and wetter. Climate change caused areas surrounding the Fertile Crescent to grow plants of wild food. The Natufians decided to settle in the Fertile Crescent, which caused them to be sedentary. Their population started the grow dramatically. They discovered farming to feed their families.
Due to the Agricultural Revolution, early humans were able to be sedentary, they didn’t have to move from one area to another in search for animals to hunt and gather materials. The Natufians started to pay attention to the different animals and plants around then. They started to realize that different plants grew during different seasons and that different animals were comfortable in different types of habitat. These realizations helped the early humans to decide when to plant different plants so that they can benefit from them and where do different animals prefer to live so that they can reproduce, this process is known as