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  A sickle used by the Sumerians 3000 years ago Agricultural history has been an important factor in global socio-economic change throughout human history. Agricultural progress has played a major role in human civilization. Agriculture gave rise to all other arts and formalized legal systems. While farmers produced food for their families, others in the community were able to devote themselves to other tasks other than food production. Historians and anthropologists have long argued that the development of agriculture made human civilization possible. Agriculture is about 10,000 years old. It has expanded greatly in area and yield over various periods. Through this expansion, new technologies and new crops have been incorporated. Methods such as irrigation, crop rotation, fertilizers, and pesticides have been around for a long time, but only in the last century have made major changes.