Second Economic Era on Agriculture and Farming

Gradually human beings formed communities and settled down in suitable places. The gathering of wild plants was slowly replaced by agriculture culturing selected plants, and the hunting of wild animals by farming rearing selected animals. The main activities were grually replaced by agriculture and farming.

While tools were still useful, the main resources were land without which no agriculture or farming could by pursued effectively. For this reason, different communities under some leaderships sometimes fight other communities with hunting tools to occupy good land. The concept of terrorites, kingdom and countries were formed.

Bartering exchanges were slowly replaced by exchanges through some form of money.

The transition from the first to the second era occured around ten thousands year ago. This varied very much at different parts of the world.

The picture above shows my next oil painting to depict these activities of agriculture. The size is also 30 x 40 in. Click on the image to enlarge.