_2020년 3월 모의_[ 고2 ]_37번

_2020년 3월 모의_[ 고2 ]_37번

 

AnneS. · H2 2020.03 No.37

Regardless of whether the people existing after agriculture were happier, healthier, or neither, it is undeniable that there were more of them.  Agriculture both supports and requires more people to grow the crops that sustain them.   Estimates vary, of course, but evidence points to an increase in the human population from 1-5 million people worldwide to a few hundred million once agriculture had become established.   And a larger population doesn’t just mean increasing the size of everything, like buying a bigger box of cereal for a larger family.   It brings qualitative changes in the way people live.  For example, more people means more kinds of diseases, particularly when those people are sedentary.    Those groups of people can also store food for long periods, which creates a society with haves and have-nots.