Agriculture reshaped human destiny from "summary" of Sapiens: A Graphic History by Yuval Noah Harari

Agriculture fundamentally changed humans from hunter-gatherers to farmers. It enabled us to live in settled communities, build complexes structures such as cities, grow and store surplus food reserves, use trade and manufacture tools for labor, and ultimately cultivate civilizations to new heights.

The impact of agriculture on human history is vast, far beyond just deepening our understanding of nature or other species. It sparked an immense shift in the way humans lived, their relationship with the environment, and ultimately provided us the capacity to thrive and develop into an advanced society.

Agriculture not only armed us with the ability to survive, but made societal advancements like art, writing, science possible. Sophisticated social structures and more diversified cultural practices arose, all related back to agriculture laying the foundation of much of what we know today.

Human destiny has long been in the hands of agriculture. It has helped us survive by providing a dependable source of food. In turn, it has allowed for a rapid expansion of population and settled living since people no longer had to wander for sustenance.

Before agriculture took hold, people lived largely day-to-day, surviving off whatever they could hunt or gather from the natural surroundings. Planting crops and domesticated animals meant that suddenly, they didn’t have to worry about where and when their next meal would come from.

Unknowingly to early farmers, the act of cultivating plants and raising animals for food caused major changes in each societies' lifestyle. These sweeping changes would then ripple outward and shape the destiny of generations to come.