Western and Central European Agriculture

Around 5500 B.C. farmers settle in Europe. The process of cultivating wheat and other crops was founded in eastern Europe and gradually expanded westward. Nearly 2500 years later animals began to aid in the domestication and cultivation of crops. Farmers could now work at faster rates and progress a lot further each and every day than was previously possible. With all of these factors now at hand, farmers dispersed throughout the civilization to complete other tasks now that their full attention was not on strictly farming. The animals served many other purposes that benefited the civilization greatly. Cattle and horses were used to tug plows across fields, sheep wool was used as clothing, and other animals were used as food. By having such a large quantity of readily available resources, a tribe or civilization could flourish and spread to other parts of the nation and eventually the world.

Megaliths or, massive rocks, were used in the construction of chambers and other monuments. These monuments and chambers were used to honor the deceased. Members of a tribe that were benefactors to the tribe were honored even after death by being placed in chambers made of megaliths. Europeans also carved objects and statues out of megaliths, which shows how versatile their tools were becoming. Megaliths were very prominent in early European civilizations.