Let's Give The Muslims A Day Off

[watchamadoodle]

The answer to your question is not fully known, nor is what is known universally agreed upon.  However, here is an attempt at answering it; I will give the Wikipedia article first to give you the rough idea, but you might want to watch the show or read the book if you are very interested in the question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

Thanks, that is a good book I read it a long time ago, but I should read it again. I read one of that author's more recent books about environmental disasters that was also good ("Collapse").

Your question reminds me of the question of why the ancient Greeks advanced civilization so much.  It, too, is a matter that is debated and is not fully understood.  Here is an introduction to the idea:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-31981.html

That's true. The ideas of the Greeks are even more surprising. Maybe it is simply that Greek ideas were better preserved due to the dominance of Hellenism later. I guess I should read the thread.

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The impetus for agriculture..if I may be so bold here...is more appropriately termed "hunger" rather than "religion".  Simple questions, simple answers.  I think that calling religion the (or an) impetus for agriculture is some -seriously- long armed stuff.

God's get hungry too.