When did agriculture originate?

In the long history of human evolution, the ape-man period lasted about 3 million years, the hominid period, which lived on gathering, was about 500 thousand years, while the human society, which lived on farming and aquaculture, was only about 6.5438+0 million years.

Judging from the development of productive forces, human beings have experienced three social forms: one is an agricultural society, which lasted for about 10 thousand years; The second is the industrial society, which lasted only about 300 years; The third is the information society that is about to enter today. Judging from the course of agricultural development, human beings have experienced three stages: first, primitive agriculture, which lasted about 7000 years; The second is traditional agriculture, which lasted for about 3000 years; Third, conventional modern agriculture, less than 200 years. The accumulation of knowledge and the progress of technology are the driving forces to promote the development of human society.

Before the germination of agriculture, in order to survive, human beings could only rely on collecting, fishing and hunting ready-made plants and animals in nature, and could not increase the number of plants or animals by their own labor. At this time, all technological progress is to find more food, not to produce more food. So this is a period without agriculture, including human childhood and Paleolithic Age. In human childhood, people lived in tropical and subtropical forests, lived in trees and ate fruits, which was the characteristic of this period. By the Paleolithic age, human beings had spread all over the world and learned to make rough stone tools and barbecue food with fire. At this time, the main content of human labor and life is to collect plants and fish and hunt animals.

In the Neolithic Age, humans have been able to make polished stone tools, and learned to plant plants and domesticate animals from the long process of collection, fishing and hunting, forming primitive farming and animal husbandry, so humans began to enter the primitive agricultural society.