Justin Schreier 6/3/11
During the early years of civilization many different food systems were made to help crop
growth to make a surplus of food, and to be sold to provide a stable economy. These
movements and advancements in made in these societies helped them survive in the areas
they lived. This allowed them to adapt to the environment that they lived in. Such as the
ideas of farming by rivers due to the amount of fertile land is there due to the water, and
the ideas of using domestication to have animals to eat.
One of the many different ideas used to help crop surplus was the idea of farming by fertile
land to help the crops grow. This was something new to the people who decided to do this
because it allowed them to plant a lot more crops then they could, and allows them to plant
more times a year then they did. Planting by the water was good because the crops were in
fertile land, and they were able to get watered without as much effort needed. This was
also good because the amount of crops grown increased tremendously when they first did
this. They were able to have a surplus of food to sell, and to keep this helped the economy
in many ways, and allowed civilizations to flourish, and become stable environments.