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The Rise of Agriculture

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The Importance of the Agricultural Revolution

In an agricultural society, the caloric surplus created by farming allowed for people in society to focus on things other than food production. Light expectancy actually dropped after the development of agriculture. Tooth decay was almost nonexistent amongst humans before the rise of agriculture. The most remarkable thing is that so many different places developed the idea independently of each other at roughly the same time.

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