Environmental conditions affecting the emergence of agriculture and the tools and means in Mesopotamia(A study in historical geography and economic)

Abstract

By environmental conditions, he meant the natural and human factors that affected human life and stability in the Mesopotamian Valley, and man had to produce everything himself because he does not have a tree that drops the fruits while he is under it and eats from it and lives to the extent that he does not need to invent means of subsistence in life, nature did not It closed its doors in front of him, but rather provided him with all the necessities of life, and that the Iraqi man lived a period of his life as a gatherer, a catter for food, a hunter and a sniper at the beginning, and he had a bit of intelligence in his mind, but he did not achieve anything from these inventions, rather he did not think that he He was able to be able to produce what he needed, then the time came when he invented each of these tools, no matter how simple they were, because there was none of them. In the beginning, most of his tools, such as axes and knives, were made of stone, and after a while he learned the principles of grazing and the domestication of animals, and he discovered agriculture and called this era the era of (sustenance production) or the era of the agricultural revolution, and the first agricultural village appeared in Iraq, which is the village of Jarmo, and it is considered the oldest agricultural village known to man. He also used metals, especially copper, tin and others.