Hi! I am a NOMAD, and I have no permanent home. I wonder around looking for a temporary place where I can hunt and forage for food.
This stage in the rise of cities is called EARLY FARMING BY HAND, because people back then did not have access to tools to help them work.
Hello! My civilization and I have now discovered AGRICULTURE, and are now farming food instead of foraging for it.
Hello, again! My civilization and I are now more developed, and we use better TECHNOLOGY for a more efficient farming method. We call this ADVANCED FARMING WITH CAPITAL RESOURCES.
CAPITAL RESOURCES are human-made resources created for the purpose of humans.
This is when job specialization started and permanent homes started.
As you can see here, I am SPECIALIZING in pottery because I am good at it. We now have permanent homes so that we don't need to be constantly moving.
This is when population growth started, and more people were part of the city.
Our city has grown! We now have more people so that farming and working is more efficient.
*This comic is slightly inaccurate; The same boy is explaining the whole process, even though the process took over one thousand years. Please excuse the inconvenience.
My little town used a SURPLUS, or the extra that we had to build an entire city.
This is the final stage of the rise of civilizations. It's a civilization! Think about what modern cities look like. Who knows what the future holds?