2. In the Fertile Crescent, archaeological evidence showed flint-bladed sickles for harvesting cereal grains, woven baskets for carrying them, stone hearths for drying them, underground pits for storing them, and grindstones for processing them.
3. The developments that occurred because of a food surplus was that people did not need to produce food, allowing them to specialize in particular activities and crafts.
4. Humans switched to farming because the amount of food available to hunters and gatherers diminished, for reasons such as an animal became extinct or …show more content…
Beer has played a vital role in the growth and development of civilizations. Some people viewed the adoption of agriculture as a way to maintain and create beer, as it grew popular socially and spiritually. Beer was rich in suspended yeast, which improved its protein and vitamin content. Due to the high level of vitamin B, people began to replace meat with beer, ultimately leading to the switch from hunting to farming. Beer was also much safer to drink then water because it was made in boiling water. Because of beer and farming, there was a surplus of food, which helped with the control of food shortages. Surplus food became important religiously because it was seen as an offering to the gods. Contributions of food were recorded using small clay tokens and were justified by administrators who lived off the surplus food and controlled the irrigation systems and construction. The surplus created accountancy, writing, and bureaucracy in the early civilizations. Overall, beer led to farming, and farming led to food surplus and other technologies that helped the development and growth of