The Origins of Agriculture（Neolithic painted pottery）

12,000 years agoThe Agricultural Revolution

10000 BCE

The Origins of Agriculture

Crops were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 10,000 to 8000 BC, and people gradually settled down.

Enter the first farm

Art style · Neolithic painted pottery

World population

4.5Mpeople

Primary energy power

8.8×10⁸W

London → New York message

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Data from 1620

Civilization metrics

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Kardashev index

0.295

Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1

World population

4.5Mpeople

1/1,855 of today

Total human primary energy power

8.8×10⁸W

1/23K of today

Compute per dollar

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No reliable data yet · data begins 1945

Fastest delivery time for a message from London to New York

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No reliable data yet · data begins 1620

Fastest speed reached by humans

46km/h

1/873 of today

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The Agricultural Revolution

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With domesticated crops and livestock, people settle in villages and populations grow; food surpluses make specialization and cities possible.

10000 BCEThe Origins of Agriculture

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