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Archaeological evidence indicates that
such development occurred more than
10,000 years ago.
By 7000 BC, sowing and harvesting had
started in Sumer, south of current Iraq.
Not long after, the Egyptians, powered
by farming in the fertile Nile Valley,
achieved a population density.
Early farming villages appeared in Ancient
China, around 5000 BC. The earliest
Chinese cities were Yangshao and
Longshank. Most people in these cities
were farmers along Huang He River.
The Indus plain, in India, had also rich alluvial deposits which came
down the Indus River in annual floods. This helped sustain farming that
formed the basis of the Indus valley civilization at Harrapa.
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