After the domestication of animals and plants a stable economic surplus was created, which led to the creation of large societies with soldiers, craftsmen, artisans and religious and governmental institutions staffed by full time officials. The rise of these early agricultural empires is accompanied by extreme fertility in inventions. The wheel, the technology to build monumental architecture, clocks, complete writing, and mathematics are only a few examples.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). Tools in the early agricultural empires. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 36, pp. 33–53). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_3
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