Agrarian Society

It appears that the cultivation of crops and the formation of larger, agriculturally-based population centers were done independently to each other.

PROS
- Controllable food supply, which helped to ensure that people wouldn't starve
- Created a food surplus, which allowed to creation of cities and the division of labor
- Farming was possible in almost all areas

CONS
- To keep feeding an increasing population, you had to radically change the natural environment
- Farming is very hard work, which perhaps acted as an incentive to enslave other people and make them do the work. Prime example would be the colonial south, which has heavily agriculturally based. The colonial north was industrially-based and didn't have slaves.

	Created by 2015jtw about 9 years ago

This episode of the crash course world history series deals with agricultural revolution.