jan 1, 4500 BC - Wooden plow used, central Europe
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Early farmers didn't use many tools to help them. They poked holes in the ground with sticks to plant seeds in, they pulled weeds by hand, and they harvested using their bare hands. Women probably did most of this work. By around 3000 BC, though, people began to build dams and dig irrigation canals to bring water to places where it didn't rain enough to grow crops. West Asian farmers started to use plows pulled by oxen, and in Africa people started to use plows pulled by donkeys, to dig up the ground for planting, and flint sickles (bone with little flint triangles set into them to make them into a kind of wedge) to cut the grain for harvesting. Men, with their strong arms, now did most of the plowing and harvesting, while women did the weeding in between. Farming had a tendency to get people into debt, and there were a lot of arguments about this debt.
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