Question

How did the development of agriculture lead to the presence of cities?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Agriculture is about the more efficient production of food, and also the storage of that food.
By being able to produce excess food and store it humans were able to start specializing their jobs. One person who was good at making pots could concentrate on making pots and earn their food that way. Because they were better at making pots than growing food the efficiency of the group was higher and the food production actually rose per person. This led to more specialization and trade.
Eventually a few farmers could feed enough artisans and traders that they had developed a market town and markets need to be regulated so you have government happening suddenly too.
Then taxes, fines, and labour conscription.

All people need to be fed and all civilizations are built on excess food production. I understand the term civilization to mean the development of settlements, villages, cities and nations.
Very few natural environments were rich enough to support civilizations without the intensification of food production that agriculture brought, and even the ones that were only supported very low levels of civilization.
You could also count food storage as part of the production of food because without being able to store the extra food and transportation for food it can't really be used to support anybody but the producers, and barely qualifies as agriculture.
Nomadic herders are usually called pastorialists but they are part of agriculture too because they store range-land plants in the form of growing animals and take them to markets to trade.

Answer 3

i looked it up

Answer 4

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