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[https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/early-agricultural-communities/ by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | [https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/early-agricultural-communities/ by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | ||
With the highly efficient, organized nature of modern farming, it can be difficult to envision a world where agriculture was an innovative new technology. Yet, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Age, new agricultural communities in Mesopotamia (in southwest Asia), northern Africa, China, and South America began tending the roots of farming as we know it today. | With the highly efficient, organized nature of modern farming, it can be difficult to envision a world where agriculture was an innovative new technology. Yet, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Age, new agricultural communities in Mesopotamia (in southwest Asia), northern Africa, China, and South America began tending the roots of farming as we know it today. | ||
=====Neolithic Revolution===== | |||
[https://www.history.com/articles/neolithic-revolution by HISTORY 12/1/18] | |||
The Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, marked the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization. The Neolithic Revolution started around 10,000 B.C. in the Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East where humans first took up farming. | |||
