2. How did Agriculture Change Lives?
Topic sentence: Agriculture changed lives because people could do other jobs, build cities, and invent new things.
Main idea #1: With the invention of agriculture, people could focus on other things, not just food.
Support #1: For example, they developed a government system.
Main idea #2: Farmers used irrigation and canals to control the river’s flow.
Support # 2: Irrigation is a way of supplying water to an area of land using man-made waterways.
Main idea #3: Lastly, settlements grew in size and cities developed.
Support #3: These cities became power bases and were political, religious, and economic centers of civilization.
Concluding Sentence: These are some of the ways agriculture changed lives.