The domestication of plants and animals brought about a change in societies. No longer did people need to live a nomadic life where they lived in a place for a short time and relied on following the herds of animals as they migrated just to eat and survive. Once they figured out how to domesticate plants and animals they were able to stop living the nomadic life. Societies became more stable through harvesting foods such as corn. They could finally settle and live off the staple crops they learned to grow, harvest, and store as well as the animals they learned to domesticate and keep (for meat and milk). The ability to create a food surplus allowed the nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to evolve into a settled agricultural one. Since food
