So you wouldn't have to worry about having enough food to feed your children.
A food surplus lead to specializations in most civilizations because it would feed all people. This would feed not only the people that produced the food, but the other people that were in the civilization
People started out as hunter/gatherers meaning they had to constantly migrate to find food. Without a surplus of food they can't stop long enough to establish a civilization. Farms become very handy to get surplus food.
development of agriculture and the ability to produce surplus food.
Without a surplus, life was just a struggle for survival. A surplus could subsidise and sustain building and culture.
The farmers had a surplus amount of food for more people to live there
it helped to build up surplus food
A surplus of food allowed people to specialize in different jobs.
They had stratification.
it helped to build up surplus food
The farmers had Surplus amount of food for more people to live there.
Farming Surplus of food Population grew Formed a government Social classes formed Cities and towns Civilization!
Civilisation requires a surplus to provide time for civilised activity to be carried out - beyond the daily struggle for food for survive. Settled peoples can produce this surplus of food and time.