Throughout history there have been many revolutions that have addressed a major change in the course of human life, among these are the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution and the scientific revolution. Since the cognitive revolution occurred in nature and humans had no choice, the agricultural revolution is known as the root cause that led humans to live the way they live now. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay If we compare the choices we had 10,000 ago between choosing settlements and agriculture with the Spartan lifestyle (hunting and gathering), can we really say we had a choice? We can decide by comparing both lifestyles and looking at their flaws and advantages. The life of hunting and gathering was easy and hard, a successful hunt could provide them with a week's supply of food so they had much more free time than people who live on agriculture. However there were many problems with the hunting lifestyle, people had to constantly move in search of food and shelter, and children were a burden to their mothers as they had to be cared for until the age of 4. They were happy with what they had until their population started to grow because they couldn't provide food for everyone, so they had to keep their numbers low by maintaining a low birth rate or sacrificing their children to continue hunting, then they started to look for another solution to feed them all instead of these two choices. And the agricultural lifestyle was also not an easy life, working in the fields and planting crops created pain in our backs, and people had to settle in one place and watch over their land and animals, overpopulation also created shortages of food and many other problems, so people had to work harder every day. However the results were too great and better than the hunting and gathering lifestyle. It took 10,000 years for agriculture to develop and advance to the modern era, it sprouted innovation, which was only possible in a densely populated area because each individual or subgroup had a certain task to do and they started to specialize in them, for example one group was responsible for watering the crops, they started by carrying water from rivers to the crops and when they realized that it was hard work they started to think of a solution to make it easier, like build canals to direct water to crops and create farmland near streams, plus using their hands to dig would damage and hurt their hands, so they started building equipment for that and so on. The idea here is that we didn't have much choice, the process of changing our lifestyles was to make our lives easier and solve bigger problems like feeding an overpopulated society, and the choices we made were a compromise, we chose an easier life. We can distinguish between agriculture and hunting in three levels: The first is at the macro (population) level, at this level agriculture is advantageous as it can provide food to a large number of population and can also provide a stable livelihood in a densely populated environment which could develop the knowledge, experiments and sciences that led to this modern era. Hunters would not benefit from having a large population since their food source was almost limited to one quantity in one location. The second is at the micro (individual) level, at this levelthe agricultural revolution is a loss, as we can see today that, despite having progressed in all aspects of life, human beings continue to endure the physical, emotional and existential suffering created by this modern and civilized world. Not only humans but also domestic animals suffer at this level, while their numbers have increased drastically, their lifespan has decreased and they live a horrible life. A hen is raised after a couple of months of birth and the cows live in a cramped space while they are impregnated as soon as they give birth so that they can produce milk and after that they are sent to the butcher for their meat. Hunters did not have much emotion and existential knowledge to be compared to us now, so in this notion hunters gained from physical abilities that their bodies were very muscular doing daily physical activities and therefore did not suffer from joint pain and the like. The third is at the cellular level, we have produced many chemicals and products and use them while our biological bodies are not adapted to them. The constant use of sugar in our diet is making us gain weight and suffer in many ways, drugs and preserved foods modified with bad GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have caused our cells to go rogue and have led to cancer. However, the hunters had a good diet of natural food and a good meat-based diet, so they led a healthier life much more than the average of the current population. A famous historian called Yuval Noah Harari, famous for his book (Sapiens) calls the Agriculture Revolution “the greatest fraud in history” and advocates the hunting and gathering lifestyle. Harari questions every aspect of the agricultural revolution and claims that humans did not domesticate animals and plants, they domesticated us. This means that as humanity began to settle, we began to care for crops and animals by feeding and caring for them. The concept here is: who fed whom? Professor Harari claims that animals and plants live on us, and to some extent this statement is true. And it indirectly states that the physical, emotional and existential suffering that humans endure due to this modern, civilized world is not worth it and supports the pre-agricultural model. lifestyle. However, I disagree with Harari and believe that calling the agricultural revolution a fraud is illogical, we had the choice between living a spartan life of hunting or farming, and we chose the latter. So we shouldn't duel over the choices of our ancestors that led us to civilize, globalize and advance in technology. While it is true that the agricultural revolution brought us many famines and diseases, however every time we came across an obstacle, we ended up with ways and solutions to solve them. We now have medicines to cure illnesses and diseases, we have also built houses and apartments to solve overpopulation, and we have ways to deal with anxiety and sadness by interacting with others and traveling. Another question arises when we compare life after the agricultural revolution with the nomadic life of the hunters that Professor Harari could have lost, if their needs were met? When we talk about needs we come across the famous diagram known as Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which consists of 5 levels of needs starting from physiological, safety, love/belonging, self-esteem and self-actualization. We can more or less agree that in the hunting and gathering lifestyle only the physiological needs such as food, water and shelter were met and it was at the limit, or they were too busy satisfying the.