Agricultural Civilization

With the beginning of agricultural civilization, people bid farewell to the nomadic life of gathering and hunting, and began to settle down. Land became the core resource, and with the advancement of production tools and farming techniques, stable food supply brought about gradual population growth, laying the foundation for the development of social structure and culture. The ancients observed nature, recorded events through clay tablets, knots, oracle bone inscriptions, bamboo slips, and used human, animal, and hydraulic power to transform nature. They also learned to make pottery, bronze, and iron objects to meet the needs of daily life, production, worship, and war. The door to human civilization has officially opened.

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In the era of agricultural civilization, humans relied on land as the core, human labor and energy as the driving force, and the small-scale agricultural economy of men farming and women weaving as the main body. They lived self-sufficient, had a stable social structure, and made slow technological progress. During different periods of agricultural civilization, the changes in production tools and the landscape of life: The period of wooden and stone tools: humans shifted from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, inventing simple agricultural tools such as stone tools and wooden plows, planting crops (such as wheat, barley, rice, etc.) and domesticating livestock, allowing humans to settle and form villages, promoting the complexity of social structure, represented by the Yellow River Basin, Mesopotamia, and Nile River Basin in China. Bronze Tool Period: With the emergence of metal processing technology, people began to use bronze to make agricultural tools, such as bronze shovels, bronze plows, etc. This period marked a major advancement in agricultural tools. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, villages were based on the well field system, dividing the land into nine parts, with the central part being public land and the remaining eight parts being private land.