Explain the effects of early agriculture in Mesopotamia.
Answer:
- People settled down and abandoned nomadic lifestyles to concentrate on agriculture.
- There was increased food production.
- Increase in population due to increased food production.
- Job specialization- some people concentrated on farming while others became potters, blacksmiths and traders.
- There was development of trade as people exchanged surplus food with what they did not have.
- Development of towns as a result of population increase and sedentary lifestyle.
- Social stratification emerged whereby there was the rich, middle class and peasants.
- Development of writing due to the need to keep records (cuneiform).
- Development of government. Laws were created and leaders chosen to govern the increasing population.
- Increased scientific knowledge that led to invention of farming tools and selective breeding of animals and plants,
- Development of religion as people started worshipping different phenomena that they thought they influenced yields eg sun and rain.
- Development of agriculture related Industries to process agricultural raw materials.
- Destruction of forests as more land was brought under cultivation.
- There was increased food production.
- Increase in population due to increased food production.
- Job specialization- some people concentrated on farming while others became potters, blacksmiths and traders.
- There was development of trade as people exchanged surplus food with what they did not have.
- Development of towns as a result of population increase and sedentary lifestyle.
- Social stratification emerged whereby there was the rich, middle class and peasants.
- Development of writing due to the need to keep records (cuneiform).
- Development of government. Laws were created and leaders chosen to govern the increasing population.
- Increased scientific knowledge that led to invention of farming tools and selective breeding of animals and plants,
- Development of religion as people started worshipping different phenomena that they thought they influenced yields eg sun and rain.
- Development of agriculture related Industries to process agricultural raw materials.
- Destruction of forests as more land was brought under cultivation.
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