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The nomadic humans started living in settlements after the last ice age, around 9,700 BC, when the glacial retreated and the world slowly changed from cold and dry to warm and wet climate. However, at around 9,000 BC, partway through glacial retraction, the Northern Hemisphere suddenly plunged to near-glacial conditions (the Younger Dryas period), Some group of people returned to nomadic life, while many stayed in their settlements finding new way to survive –Agriculture and farming.
This transformation to sedentary society had immense impact on the human way of living, food habits, social living, culture, and produced physiological and environmental changes. Many facets of modern civilization can be traced back to this pivotal moment in history, when people started living together in communities.
Once human started sedentary living with the invention of agriculture and farming it leads to the other requisites for the foundation of civilization one after another like domino effect, such as- urban settlements, segregation/specialization of activities, concentration of surplus production, class structure, governing body, monumental/public building, extensive trading networks, artwork, writing, complex religion system. When the wheel of civilization started to roll, it kept rolling to twenty-first century and beyond.
Although the invention of agriculture paved the way to modern civilization, but some other pre-contributing factors worked as the cornerstones for the evolution of civilization. Before diving deep into the evolution of civilization, we shall explore these cornerstones first, without which civilization could never start.
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