Foragers intended to use the environment’s abundance of wild animals and plants to their advantage. These foragers enjoyed hunting and gathering and preferred to take the more convenient way of life. This allowed them to have more time observing nature and thinking about what they see in nature. Art has given anthropologists to understand their way of life and key elements of the foragers’ culture. One could argue that the life of the foragers made a small impact on the environment. On the other hand, farmers arguably used agriculture forming interdependence between humans, plants, and animals. Farmers relied on livestock such as cattle to provide meat and milk while domesticated animals relied on farmers for reproduction. Farmers wanted to challenge evolution; therefore, farmers made a great impact on the environment, creating a demand for labor and hard work. Although farmers challenged the course of nature, foragers used the environment to their advantage causing abundance of food and crops that can never be …show more content…
Farming over time would eventually become beneficiary with the help of modern advances to irrigation systems, but it did not happen successfully in early civilizations. Farming is more inconvenient than foraging because it demands more energy to get the same amount of nourishment as foraging. The progress of adapting from foraging to farming gave food to be less dependable because people were limited to food they could plant over the land. They could only plant a few crops on farms and it seems apparent that diseases became more widespread from domesticated animals to humans. Foraging became more convenient for these early civilizations and people thrive from the high level of nutrients by hunting animals and eating wild