Agricultural revolution

The Fertile Crescent is the name given to the arc-shaped area of land that stretched across the Middle East from the northern end of the Gulf in the East to the Nile Valley in the West.

According to a recent study, the cultural exchanges and interbreeding between African hunter-gatherers, Neolithic European agriculturists, and East-Saharan pastoralists significantly influenced shifts in lifestyles, cultural manifestations, and genetic composition in the Maghreb from 5500 to 4500 BC

– how the emergence of agriculture transformed the Nomad into a Settler and birthed civilisation. image… by ravenruis

Inventor Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 170. It was a mechanical seeder which distributed seeds equally across a plot of land. This was helpful because the amount of time seeds were harvested to plant at that time was around four or five.

The high cost of labor drove inventors to create machines that would make farming cheaper and profits higher.

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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. It started around 10,000 B.C.

An international research team led by Mainz palaeogeneticists demonstrates that populations in the ancient Fertile Crescent are the ancestors of modern day South Asians but not of Europeans.

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