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→Initial Impact on Societies
While we often see these impacts, particularly as they spread across different agricultural regions, as having beneficial results for societies. The reality is much more mixed. First, the environment greatly suffered. Plant domestication leads to the need for clearing more land, including burning of fields to fertilize them and clear them. This, already after 8000 before present, began to have an impact on societies and even likely global temperature. While we think global warming has been a modern effect of industry, agriculture arguably helped to create the first significant wave of human-induced climate change.
[[File:Feature2originmap600.png|thumbnail|Figure 1. Multiple centers and areas of plant domestication arose, although most plants domesticated staple crops are found in the Mediterranean basinand in Asia.]]
==Intensification of Agriculture==
