system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 - If humans have been around for 200,000 years and civilization only began about 6000 years ago, what were we doing for the other 194,000 years and what changed?
gpt
For millenia humans were hunters and gatherers. We moved from place to place and ate the plants and animals that grew there. Then, the neolithic revolution happened. We figured out that we could domesticate animals and grow plants for our own purposes. Agriculture created a surplus of food that allowed us to stay in one spot permenently. Additionally, agriculture meant that not everyone had to gather food. This created the "division of labour"  Some people became artists, others became craftsmen or merchants. These advancements enabled the development of civilization.