From village roots to empires: how agriculture birthed civilization and its enduring legacies.
Mobile foragers rise to settle as food shifting seeds the first villages and social change.
Domestication and surplus enable permanent settlements, population growth, and specialization.
River valleys birth cities, writing systems, and organized social hierarchies in emerging states.
Irrigation, trade, and religion coalesce into centralized authorities and legal systems.
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