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Readings: Chapter 1(First Farmers), Sections: Breakthroughs to Agriculture to end of Chapter ~ As the textbook states, in the 95% that humans have inhabited the earth we have been able to survive by means of scavenging and hunting with no need for farming and other methods/modern techniques. However, centuries later as we have come to evolve the creation and discovery of modern creations in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas we did not only survive, but we learned how to prosper. While in school we often learn of civilizations(defined by historians as representing a new and particular type of society) such as that of Egyptand Mesopotamia historians often neglect the culture and lifestyle of the Paleolithic people. We ignore their way of civilization 200,000 years later in a time where we are destroying our planet at an alarming rate. From the breakthrough of agriculture and language they truly shaped how we do things over the next 5,000 years. The Paleolithic people strived ...