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In ancient times people lived on whatever food they could find. As the early people 1 ... in numbers, they had to wander and search for wild fruits and seeds of wild plants or hunt for small animals.
Then one of these early people 2 ... a great discovery. A great genius discovered the meaning of seeds. He may have noticed that where some seeds had fallen on the ground, new plants grew. Perhaps he was 3 ... enough to put some seeds in the ground to see what would happen. No one knows how it happened, but man 4 ... that if he put a seed into the soil it could grow into a plant which might yield hundreds or even thousands of seeds!
He was free of the need to be in a constant 5 ... of his food!
Early man could now 6 ... seeds in the spring and wait for them to grow.
In the fall he could gather a harvest of seeds. There would be enough to
7 ... himself and his family all through the winter, with some left over for planting when spring came.
This discovery was the beginning of 8 ... and the most important change that ever happened to people on earth.