| Type | |
| Impact | Powered rise of the first cities and early civilizations • Prompted urbanism • Prompted economic specialization • Prompted social stratification • Enabled rapid expansion of empires • Enabled long-term cultural transformations |
| Benefits | Increased crop yields • Creation of agricultural surpluses |
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| Inventor(s) | Unrecorded |
| Invention date | Around 5000 BCE |
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