The Agriculture Revolution

In today's class we learned more about the agriculture revolution by watching a video that explained life in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. In the video it explained how agriculture was brought up to the human race, and how it has affected history. Before we domesticated crops and animals, we foraged and hunted for food. In the video, it said that fishing was the easiest and most abundant way to obtain food, hence, why we originally lived by the shores and still do today. Now, it is so much easier to obtain food by growing it yourself. Some advantages of agriculture is a stable food supply to support people in droughts, floods, or whatever the case may be. A disadvantage is that you may have to radically change the environment around you. Another advantage is that you can create a food surplus, so you can have enough food to allow the population to grow, by having more food than the population needs, this allows room for more people in the population. Another disadvantage is that farming can be difficult and requires lots of physical labor to do.