There is a transition of hunter gatherers to farmers in the ancient civilizations. Hunter-gatherers have to find food each day. Plants didn't produce enough food for people to stay in an area for a long amount of time. People figured out that some plants could be grown by humans planting them. people then began to grow plants in a contained area. They could then grow more food and be able to stay in an area for a long time. They then settled in an area and survived from the crops they grew.
There is a significance of food surplus. A surplus of food is when someone can produce more food then they needed to survive. A surplus of food let people be able to feed more people and it helped civilizations grow. Everybody didn't have to grow food all the time anymore. This allowed people to discover how to do other things like making permanent homes. This was how civilizations grew and progressed.
Jared Diamond's theory of geographic luck is a theory of why certain civilizations grew and others didn't.
Geographic luck is basically how lucky a person was to be born in an area that had a lot of geographic resources. It helped civilizations grow if it had a lot of geographic resources or it was "geographically lucky".
Areas in the middle east were more geographically lucky than laces like islands.
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