Introduction
Agricultural revolution refers to a time where human beings started engaging in agriculture by cultivating the soil and domesticating animals and some plants this was between -8000 BC and 1700.It is believed that there was a slight increase in population during this period. This paper is going to discuss the possible factors that might have affected population growth rate during the agricultural revolution.
Effect of agricultural revolution on population growth
During the hunting and gathering period the population increased at a very slow rate, this was mainly because of high levels of mortality and lower levels of fertility; we can refer to this as a stationary population. The agricultural revolution had a huge impact on population
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The two theories on how mortality affected population growth rate during the agricultural revolution are discussed as follows.
Theory 1: Mortality declined
Regular food supply
The agricultural revolution brought about regular and regular more reliable food supply. Unlike when the people would still hunt and gather their own food which was not a reliable form of food supply because nomadic people had to move from one place to another in search of food that they can eat. Agriculturalists would just plant their own food and maintain it so that they are sure of what they will produce and when it will be consumable.
Protection against severe weather
The sedentary lifestyle also helped the nomadic people to settle and build themselves a shelter that would protect them against harsh weather conditions such as heavy winds and storms. People could also produce or buy clothes for themselves as civilization was also being introduced unlike back in the hunting and gathering period where they would just use animal skin to cover only certain body