How did domestication and agricultural lead to civilization.?

Question

Help me please and if you do know please make it short and kid friendly

Answer 1

It allowed for creation of spare time. Hunting and gathering takes a lot of time. Having spare time, people had time to put up homes, to put up temples, to put up schools, to start professions besides agriculture, like the military, the priesthood, government, tool making, carpentry. You could store spare food. You could trade it for other things you needed but didn't have, so it started economic exchange. The key is the spare time it made possible, because agriculture produces a LOT more food than hunting and gathering.

Answer 2

Well we domesticated animals and they helped us start farming so we didn't need to hunt and gather like our more primitive ancestors. That's how domestication AND agriculture helped lead us to civilization =]

Answer 3

I used the site
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/elibrarian/
for help with references.

This is what she sent me...
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/faq/Encarta/domesticate.htm

http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/agcivilization.html (this site basically says due to agriculture we have time to go to work and worry about other things than the name of the crops).

http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria18_4a.htm

Answer 4

Once people didn't have to follow their food they could settle down and create cities and so forth.