Question

how did cultivation lead to the rise of early civilization and city-states?

Answer 1

Cultivation and the rise of early civilization

Cultivation is the art or act of cultivating( to grow plants, notably crops). It refers to the improvement of land for or by agriculture.

Civilization is an organized culture, encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or people.

Before the first civilization began( recorded one : Mesopotamian civilization), in the prehistoric period most of the people were hunters and remaining few were in the animal husbandry. They were not settled in one place, wandering from one place to another place in small groups for the sake of food for them and their animals.

Riverside fertile land and planes provided them an abundance of foods for the small groups and animals for the hunters. Gradually these groups got settled down in the fertile lands especially in the river valleys. Slowly they started farming and agriculture. From the wild grains they choose seeds and cultivated it. Once they started cultivation, they thought to settle down in one place as they were getting crops and harvest, enough for their needs.

They stated to build huts and mud houses. Water for agriculture and human needs, fertile soil gave them enough crops , food and comfort. Permanent settlement of these groups resulted in the formation of communities and small societies. Some of them engaged in other works like constructing houses and cities, trade. Slowly the need of social organisation occured.These events led to the early rise of civilization and the root fact for these events was cultivation.