𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆’𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱.

 🎀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆’𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱. 🎀  

Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 a handful of plant ☘️ species, including 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭🌾, 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 🍚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐬🍟. 

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙨 , 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖.

Ten thousand years ago 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨, 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮, 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩. Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world.

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬? ♥

W𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 did it by manipulating H̾o̾m̾o̾ ̾s̾a̾p̾i̾e̾n̾s̾ to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. 

Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. It wasn’t easy. 

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 

[1] Wheat 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 rocks and pebbles, so Sapiens broke their backs clearing fields. 

[2] Wheat 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 sharing its space, water and nutrients with other plants, so men and women laboured long days weeding under the scorching sun. 

[3] Wheat 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤, so Sapiens had to keep a watch out for worms and blight. 

[4] Wheat 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 against other organisms that liked to eat it, from rabbits to locust swarms, so the farmers had to guard and protect it. 

[5] Wheat 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐲, so humans lugged water from springs and streams to water it. Its hunger even impelled Sapiens to collect animal faeces to nourish the ground in which wheat grew.

The body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for such tasks. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. 

𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞.

Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to 𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 about a plethora of ailments, such as 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐬. Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle permanently next to their wheat fields. This completely changed their way of life .

𝙒𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙨.

This excerpt is taken from one of the best book of era 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book by Yuval Noah Harari