That's only an assumption. We don't know it they assigned different values to each profession or not.
That's because there are more people to recruit into the various militaries. War has always been about what the other guy has, or is perceived to have. Food, good hunting or fishing grounds, good foraging land, mineral deposits, etc.
Uh, that being well, WELL after the rise of the agrarian society. Women were still working the fields and in a number of places, still do today.
Alcohol was essential to human survival. Untreated water kills. Ancient peoples understood that drinking water could be deadly, they just didn't understand why. If it wasn't for agriculture and the first alcohols, we would have been wiped out by e-coli and other pathogens in the water.
False assumption. Seeds were more varied so when they planted crops, at least some of the harvest was likely to make it.
Blaming agriculture for religion is like blaming ancient China for WW2. Ancient humans were appeasing the gods long before agriculture and religion.
A process, as it turns out, that is quite reversible. One man in Africa turned a small part of the southern Sahara desert into a lush, green paradise. 40 years ago when he began his reclamation, he was regarded as the village fool. Not today. Today because of that one man, what was once desert now provides enough food for his entire village with some surplus left over for trading. And the real irony is, the man had no real knowledge of agriculture. He simply used his knowledge from observing nature to harness it and bring the dead back to life, so to speak.
As with almost any human innovation, agriculture is a double-edged sword.
