...Jared Diamond made some compelling arguments about why the consequences of agriculture could be considered negative but, overall he did not make a compelling enough argument that agriculture is the worst mistake in human history. Without agriculture I don’t believe that there would be as sophisticated and as large of a society that we have today. The benefits of agriculture outweigh the consequences. Diamond points out that agriculture came out of the need to feed more people. When groups of hunter and gathers were faced with a growing population they had two options: to split into smaller groups or to settle down and adopt agriculture. Had more groups decided not to take up agriculture and the population continued to grow, then the food resources...
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...Jared Diamond’s thesis is that civilization is not created through biological or intellectual superiority but the environment itself. Jared is trying to disprove the beliefs that Europeans are superior because of genetics and biological differences. To support this Diamond takes you back to roughly 13,000 years ago to an area called The Fertile Crescent in modern day Middle-East. The Inhabitants of the pre modern Fertile Crescent back up his theory that civilization is created through the environment. Through them you see the first step towards civilization because of a chain of developments that is only possible because of their environment. The first step is to move from hunter-gatherer society to an agrarian based society. The main...
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