The Birth of Civilization

21/09/2020 28 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3

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Episode Synopsis

Time range: 15,000-500 BCE
We last left off about 15,000 years ago when the standard lifestyle began to change. Before this, humans were hunter-gathers. While this was a successful method of living, there was a growing demand for change. But why? The hunter-gather diet was far healthier than the diet after this change. And hunter-gathers had much more leisure time than their advanced descends. So why would they make this change? Many anthropologists have suggested that the transition to the development of agriculture was to increase the intake of calories. But regardless of why the transformation happened, it was a pivotal moment in the vector of humanity. So what happened?

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