The first agricultural revolution occurred in the region of the Middle East known as the fertile crescent. This revolution marke
d the Era when humans moved from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to a more permanent one. This revolution led to the origin of the first civilizations as the newly found agriculture presented a way for people to produce their own food and to have an excess for trading.
The neolithic revolution also called the agricultural revolution started in neolithic period about 10,000 years ago as earlier people had a lifestyle of hunting and gathering their knowledge led to the domestication of plants.
The neolithic revolution had few and small food production techniques, as passage of time the societies gradually modified and specialized in the food crop cultivation.
With the activities of deforestation, irrigation, and domestication of animals taking place.
The earliest civilization developed in sumer, in southern Mesopotamia and spread form the middle east in the fertile crescent to the rest of the world.
A squatter settlement therefore, can be defined as a residential area which has developed without legal claims to the land and/or permission from the concerned authorities to build; as a result of their illegal or semi-legal status, infrastructure and services are usually inadequate.
