Is Agriculture the Beginning of Civiliz Ton?

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The argument that agriculture is the beginning of civiliz ton, in the moment at which everything got better. This is not just true about agriculture, but it's true for almost all the mouthstones of civil ation. The invention of writing was mainly bureaucracy to keep track of depts. For example, theerealis also really a civilized or modern phenomenon here. People started living too close to one another so cities became petridices and were the development of diseases.

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