Answer: Food surpluses provided enough resources to supply larger populations.
Explanation:
With the domestication of plants and animals, the earlier societies were able to make more food for themselves than hunting and gathering supplied. This led to them being able to maintain larger populations that would have died out earlier due to a lack of food.
For instance, it is estimated that before the domestication of plants and animals, humans numbered between 6 and 10 million people but 10,000 years after the domestication, the human population numbered about 250 million showing the influence the domestication had.
In my opinion the black codes were established to ensure the Northern Union that the Confederates, even after that Civil War, did not believe
abolitionism. so in a way the southerners wanted to let the northerners know they still want to fight but because they do not have the manpower left, they wanna fight politically and that they still didn't believe "all men are equal" this is part of the reason why i think the Reconstruction did not work out and that it eventually led to the civil rights movement in 1950's/1960's which ended the entire dispute
People agree to social contracts because they establish governments which in turn establish a sense of order and security. It establishes a set of rules which makes people more comfortable when they have some to follow.
In Southwest Asia, WWI forced the Ottoman Empire to disperse and lose all of its land but Turkey, who modernized shortly after. Republics were formed and different people took over, mainly men with military positions.