Chapter 2 first farmers

I found it very interesting by how quickly the early people learned how to improve their crops and technology.  They were able to start domesticating animals to help them with their crops, by harnessing the power of the stronger animals in order to help pull their tools to irrigate the land.  People didn't always think of animals as tools, but after we evolved and adapted, we were then able to use animals and raise them to help us in many ways.  People also started to farm animal and raise them for food instead of just going out and hunting them all of the time, which I thought was very smart of the early people to start doing because it would save them so much time, plus they would just always have access to it if they really needed it.  One thing that really stood out to me was the way that the farmers were able to take corn and transform it from a plant with a single cob of about an inch,  and getting the cob to grow six times the size by 1500.  But the farmers didn't just stop there, they were able to even double the length of that cob later on.  I really likes how people were able to share all of their ideas about agriculture in order to get more efficient ways of obtaining crops.  With everyone just sharing their own information with one another, it was rather interesting to how some people still use some of the same techniques today.  Basically during the early times people were just starting to work with the land and animals because they didn't know any better.  But thanks to everyone helping each other and through trial and error, we were able to survive and improve many of the foods that we grew in the past.