• Agriculture lead to the birth of society.
• It began in the Neolithic era, 9000 BCE.
  • Right after the last ice age
  • When stone tools were made
• Before agricultures, hunter-gatherer tribes were forced to rely on large swaths of land for relatively small populations.
• Agriculture allowed for a greater population density. It lead to the global population supported nearly increasing 1000 fold.
• Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture that domesticated animals. This allowed them to move on from the hunter-gatherer phase of society.