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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: 02b Beginnings of Civilization, Food Surplus due to fertile soil and irrigation, Division of Labor now pottery-makers, animals were easier to domesticated than hunt such as later pigs and cattle, The First Herders because animals were easier to domesticated than hunt, debarking trees for the dead leaves and tree provided rich soil, Beginnings of Civilization assigned reading The Human Odyssey: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages Vol. 1 Edited by John Cribb, Mary Beth Klee, and John Holdren (pages 20 to 33), Division of Labor now priests, The First Herders had to move around a lot to find good grazing lands, Sumer was the first civilization, The First Farmers developed slash and burn agriculture, fertile soil and irrigation spring flloods controlled by irrigation created fertile soil and gave water for crops even in times of little rain due to channels and levees., Food Surplus means not everyone has to farm to have enough food, so Division of Labor, Mesopotamia pupulation grew and land needed for more farms, so gradually expanded south along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers Sumer, Division of Labor now brick makers, Building Cities big projects temples, plow which was eventually hitched to animals instead of farmers., The First Farmers developed plow, Building Cities big projects walls for protection, civilization to occur, must have Food Surplus, The First Farmers became trade partners (meat, grain, stones for tools) The First Herders