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The problems of agricultural society are disease, security, pollution, unsanitary conditions, overpopulation, war, and dependency on weather.

Disease

Disease was a major problem as it could now spread more quickly. This was because everyone lived closer together, so therefore disease could spread faster. The fact that they lived by their animals also helped animal’s diseases “jump” to humans quickly.

This is a picture of a virus that could jump person to person.‎

Security

Security also became a more substantial problem because now if you saw an animal you needed from someone else, you could take it.

Pollution

Pollution also occurred because people were living so close to animals that they could get sick more easily from them. This connects with disease because animals can spread disease.

Unsanitary Conditions

These were in part caused by how people lived very close to each other and their animals. Unsanitary conditions helped diseases spread more easily.

Overpopulation

Now that people needed to work less time, they had time to reproduce. Since no one was used to so many babies being born, the population became too much for them to handle. This could cause a shortage in food, and could also cause wars.

War

People now had more valuable property. If you had something another village wanted, they could try to take it. Your village would then recoil by declaring war. War, along with growing food, depended on weather at least partly.

Dependency on Weather

Now, people were dependent on weather. If there was too little rain, then plants would die. If there was too much rain, then plants would drown. Nature became unalterably entwined with early people’s lives.

This flood could destroy plants that could be used for food.

Bibliography

Social Consequences of Agriculture