How Did The Agricultural Revolution Affect Society

For many long years humans lived in tribes where they had to hunt and gather for their next meals. Farming was a thing but not the same as we know it today. The agricultural revolution, also known as the Neolithic revolution, was a huge change in the way of life for everyone. This period was a full transition from a food gathering to a food producing society. The revolution took place about eight thousand years ago among various tribes in Asia and the Middle East. They began domesticating plants and animals as well as use farming more to their advantage to have a more stable food source. This change allowed for many significant changes that shows in how we live our lives today. Tribes began to settle in fertile areas and form societies rather than travel and migrate. This important stable way of life had a more reliable food supply and surplus led to many effects and developments that allowed life to prosper the way we know it as today.
One effect of the developments from the agriculture revolution on early societies is that people finally had a reliable source of food as a result from …show more content…
People with different skills needed to become masters in different types of occupations for the sake of their community around them. As a result, we started to see some leaders, while others became farmers, craftsmen, warriors, etc. The social aspect of life was also affected as well. Societies became less as a whole with a common food supply and more divided into individual family units with separate residences. More social changes were brought about in the creation of larger and more complex societies. This showed people that in order to thrive in their society, they were going to need to expand and explore further ways of how to make their lives more advanced. This is something that we still see today, using better allocation of resources and containment of