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>>14472967
>Plus, by the time of homo sapiens, the labor of 1 man could provide sustenance for several families, because crops were cultivated.

No, not even close. Homo sapiens, based on were you want to point at a timeline became a thing between 130 k BC and 80 k BC. Neolithic Revolution happen in 10 k BC, which the first very clearly different societies from it starting around 6500 BC. First places that started to have that type of out put were the river valley civilizations, with Mesopotamia reaching that around 4200 BC, Egypt getting their in 3400 BC, and the other two even later then that.

Thing is that is only for the river valleys themselves, not for other lands under cultivation by those peoples. More places started to have rates farming households to supported non farming households around 700 BC. For example the Po valley. Thing is that overland transportation before railroad is a hell of a thing and most places were still at a rate of 5 to 1 households farming to non farming households to 3 to 4.

The UK as a national average got a out put that would enable a 1 to 2 rate of farming households to non farming households in 1720 AD.