Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?

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Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?

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Answer 1

Grain was also an early form of money. Some ancient civilizations like Egypt collected taxes in the form of grain. As you can imagine, taxation leads to break throughs in math, communal public works and infrastructure, ‘stock’ exchanges… even time keeping and contract law.