HIS101H5 Final: 091-Test1_120_SG.doc
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Chapter 1 explores the early history of human communities and traces the emergence and impact of agriculture on. Chapter 1: the emergence of human societies, to 3000 b. c. e. Early human communities were made up of small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers. While societies were small and simple, they were not static. Moving from place to place in search of resources, our ancestors developed new behaviors and strategies as they adapted to new conditions. In time, their migrations spread human beings across the globe. Foraging bands gatherers hunter/gatherers horticulture agriculture. A single species 99. 9% same as all other humans. The advent of agriculture was a fundamental shift in human social development. The formation of permanent settlements led to the creation of ever more complex communities. As these settlements grew, social and economic specialization emerged along with political centralization. It is not too much to say that agriculture was the necessary precondition for the development of civilization.
