ch1 continuation (reading #2)

I was surprised when I read that after the Ice Age people started settling down and creating permanent homes for themselves. Also, how quickly they were able to adapt and find new ways to survive. They were motivated to create new tools and methods of finding food since their population was rapidly increasing. These people began domesticating which led to a larger food supply. Later they started the agricultural revolution, introducing farming, which was led by females since they were the gatherers of these crops. This makes me wonder how quickly we would have been able to adapt, given the amount of technology we have now and how reliant we are on it.
Something that amazes me is how both domestication and the agricultural revolution were spreading all over the world, yet there was absolutely no communication between these people. Everyone was trying to figure out what crops work best in the areas their areas, but no one was aware that this was going on all around the world simultaneously. 

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