This made pastoralists, people incharge of moving the herds around tonew feeding/watering places, morecommon

The archaelogist Colin Renfrew thinks that thefarmers with fields farthest away from their homesmoved and built settlements closer to their fields,leading to a peaceful expansion of farmers

Farmers andforagers haddifferent religions

Kinship led to respect and reverencefor dead ancestors; old people gotfancy burials

People built megaliths for theirreligions; one example isStonehenge

The town of Catal Huyuk was very religious therewas 1 shrine for every 2 houses! Statues of fatwomen suggest that the people worshipped afemale goddess

The people in the town CatalHuyuk were into art theypainted hunting scenes

Farming settlements were VERY vulnerableto disease because of all the human waste,vermin/insects, and the domesticatedanimals

Lots of new stone tools: stone headsto work the soil, stone chips stuck inbone to cut grass, and stone mortarsto cut grain

Fire used to cleartrees/bushes, so plants couldbe grown

Shifting cultivation farmers grewplants on one section of land forseveral years, then left thatsection fallow (inactive) to let itregain fertility while they useddifferent fields for a while

Greece grew wheat andbarley starting in 6000 BC

Middle East people rotated betweengrowing different plants, to keep thesoil fertile

Eastern Sahara grew wheat andbarley; raised sheep, goats, andcattle

South of the Sahara grewsorghums, millets, andyams

China rice;domesticated waterbuffalo

India rice, hyacinthbeans, green grams, andblack grams; domesticatedhumped-back zebu

Americas (TehuacanValley of Mexico) corn

Peru potatoes and quinoa

Mesopotamia started using agriculture in5000 BC; grew barley and vegetables; hadto use irrigation because of the dry, aridclimate