The Neolithic Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution

The emergence of agriculture was a major stepping stone in human history. During this birth of agriculture, also known as the Neolithic revolution, humans began inhabiting permanent settlements, grow their own crops, and domesticate both plants and animals for food (Weisdorf, 2005). Considering humans have been hunter-gatherers for the majority of their approximately 7 million years of existence, the emergence of agriculture in the Old World only occurring 10,000-5,000 years ago, marks a significant transformation in food sustenance techniques (Weisdorf, 2005). However, this turning point in history is associated with both positive and negative implications. There is much controversy over whether or not the introduction of

The Neolithic revolution was a period of time that occurred during 10,000 - 9,000 B.C.E. Humans made the transition from hunting and gathering and being nomadic to being sedentary. During the neolithic revolution humans also developed social classes where the people who watched others work were at the top and the people who worked at the bottom. People have different opinions on the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture during the neolithic revolution. Thinking about all of the things humans received from the neolithic revolution, it was not worth it. Human society would have been better off without the disease, the social classes, and starvation. Therefore, while the neolithic revolution brought many beneficial things to human society such as agriculture, and permanent housing, it brought more harm than good like modern day diseases and social classes.

In the 1930's, V. Gordon Childe proposed that the shift to food production was one of the two major events in human history that improved the condition of human societies. Childe described the origins of agriculture as a 哲eolithic Revolution.But the shift from hunting and gathering to food production was not as advantageous to humanity as Childe believed. Although there were benefits, there were also serious drawbacks, and humans paid a price for the advantages of agriculture.

The Neolithic Revolution began in Southwest Asia and other areas during 10,000 B.C.E to 3, 000 B.C.E (Council for Economic Education, 2012). The Neolithic Revolution also known as the Agricultural Revolution was a new way of life. Our society is constantly changing and moving forward. As a part of human culture, humans strive to learn, discover, create and evolve (Barber, n.d.). As a society, we have made many technological and social advancements, but have we ever taken the time to appreciate the past? The Neolithic Revolution is where it all began. Prior to the Neolithic Revolution, the early humans lived in the Paleolithic Age. This presentation will display life before the Neolithic Revolution and the shift that lead to some of the first social and technological advancements in history.

The Neolithic Revolution was a major change in the way people lived in 10,000 BCE. The transformation from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to stable settlement, the establishment of social classes, and inevitable boost of civilization. The Neolithic Revolution began with farming. The people domesticated animals and plants.

The Neolithic Revolution was the biggest turning point in human history. Before, during the Paleolithic era, humanity was a migrating, disorganized, species of hunter-gatherer nomads who had little time to do anything but procure sustenance. During and after the Neolithic Revolution, however, the human population began to skyrocket. Towns, cities and eventually civilizations began to appear, causing humankind to split into those who began living in towns and cities and those who remained hunter-gatherers, those who steadily progressed towards technological achievement and population growth and those who remained stuck in archaic practices, respectively. According to historian Jared Diamond, “Sedentary living was decisive for the history of

Forming villages and communities thousands of years ago, probably was one of the best decisions that people back then ever made. Before societies, humans were hunters and gatherers, they would run around and try to get to hunt animal and sleep and just repeat that cycle until they die, an aspect of that was shown in the cartoon “Join the Neolithic Revolution comic” a hunter and a gatherer sad and feel bad that they did not have enough food. They felt it was amazing that you do not have to worry about hunting everyday and killing every single day for food when the guy from the village came to them and explained how villages work, also you can see him walking with a goat, which mean you do not have to kill them all, you can live with animals

What is the Neolithic Revolution? Well, we are going to discuss it if you are asking, I am going to make sure that it is my job to inform you about it.The Neolithic Revolution is the spread of farming{agriculture} throughout the world.We are going to be discussing the three main details of, the domestication of animals, how the Neolithic Revolution came to be, and how the hunter-gatherers went from farming to hunter-gathering. The first topic we are going to discuss is how hunter-gathering went on to farming{agriculture}.

In modern, day, the majority believe that society has progressed and changed for the better. They believe that with the rise of technology, lives have gotten easier and more efficient, and thus better but many argue the other side. They say that with technology, quality of human life has decreased in many areas. One major area this debate is the shift to agriculture and farming. Before the Neolithic revolution, there were two main ways of feeding the populace. One was hunting for animals and the other was to gather different foods such as fruits and nuts. After the Neolithic revolution, however, farming came to rise and people relied on growing their own crops to provide food. The benefits

The Neolithic Revolution was the start of a new way of living. Around 10,000 years ago, people started to settle down to live in one place. During the Paleolithic Era people were nomadic, so they kept on moving from place to place. They are hunter and gatherers which means that they would stay close to the animals as that is their only source of food. They would live in small populations because they

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The Paleolithic people shaped social development with hunters and gatherers always on the move. This socialization led to a break-through in farming where people no longer needed to wander around in search of animals, fish, or plants. Stone Age man though gave up his earlier ways of life gradually. The question still remains as to why the radical shift from foraging to farming. However, this eventual shift unfolded a time of transition to the establishment of permanent settlements, the formation of social classes, increasing populations, and the eventual rise of civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India. Findings such as the Iceman and the unearthing of the villages of Çatalhöyük and Jericho have allowed archaeologists to learn a multitude about life during this

The crops and animals that were developed or domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution include wheat, barley, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, sorghum, yams, okra, black-eyed peas, rice, millet, soybeans, chicken, water buffaloes, taro, yams, coconut, breadfruit, bananas, citrus fruit, maize, beans, peppers, squashes, tomatoes, manioc, sweet potatoes, llamas, alpacas, mammoths, mastodons, and horses.Farmers spent most of their time dedicated to cultivating the plants. This was an adjustment because hunter-gathering roughly only took four hours out of their day. Men began to domesticate animals instead of hunting, while women cultivated plants. They also began to to track the patterns of the weather and when the different seasons to place which

The Neolithic Revolution was a series of technological advancements in human organization that soon led to evolution of agriculture and farming. Farming and agriculture were initially started in the Middle East and the Black Sea regions that span from Turkey to Iraq and Jordan. This was due to the fact that this region was highly fertile, had two major rivers available for irrigation (Tigris and Euphrates), sparsely forested areas and a lack of animals that were a threat to the predominantly hunting lifestyle. The Neolithic Revolution started in response to the warming climates after the Ice Age when groups of people decided to adapt to the environment in new and profound ways enabling the start of agriculture.

As a result of the Neolithic Revolution the ability to feed and support larger groups was possible and human population increased greatly as a result. The economy altered from hunter-gathering to being largely agricultural based. They also had more time that could be devoted to creating systematic societies that were better governed and experienced. These governments and laws would affect economies in the future by giving them examples and experiences on which they could base their systems on.