Similarities in SW Asia, Africa and the Americas

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Similarities in SW Asia, Africa and the Americas
Farming that majored in wheat and barley was initially started in the Middle East and later spread to Western Asia, Egypt, and Europe. It is important to note that all the earliest civilizations relied primarily on cereal agriculture (Peggy 310). Cultivation of fruits was started three thousand years later in the Middle East followed by vegetables and other crops. Cultivation of rice was started in SW Asia in about 7,000 years ago.
In around 10,000 years ago, people from South West Asia, Africa and America began to abandon the foraging lifestyle that had been universally successful for millennia. These people started to gather and settle around cereal grasses (Peggy 218). They also started domesticating animals for milk, labor, skins, and other useful purposes.
The adoption of cereal agriculture led to decline of the old hunter-gatherer style of social organization. Hierarchically organized societies that were centered on villages and cities emerged. The rise of civilization among the people living in SW Asia, Africa, and America also led to the emergence of socioeconomic classes, governments, and job specialization.
The size of human populations residing in these regions gradually rose above pre-agricultural norms. While early agricultural villages had around 200 inhabitants, the early cities that emerged after an increase in population had more than 10,000 inhabitants (Peggy 280). Agriculture and civilization brought foraging to an end. When large communities were established, families engaged in extensive agriculture that even catered for other people and for their future consumption. They began working for whole day instead of few hours a day as most hunters and gatherers did.
Civilization of the early groups in SW Asia, America, and Africa was similar as it correlated...