The Pros And Cons Of The Neolithic Revolution

According to the context of Document 3, “One innovation or change that occurred because of the Neolithic Revolution was that people settled in villages.” This shows that because of the change of the Neolithic Revolution, people began to live in well-maintained places where people would settle (ex: villages). Another detail from the third document is that “In ancient Banpo, forty- five houses covered with thatch provided homes for perhaps 500 people.” This means that because of the change in Neolithic times, there were a lot of people who were provided with homes to live in. This also shows that there were homes provided for large amounts of people, and they made many items such as pots, vases, and dishes to help them for the house. Moreover, in Document 6, the innovations of the Neolithic Revolution were good for society because they taught many people, especially children, on how to be prepared for anything, and teaching them the basics such as growing and planting crops, and feeding others. According to the sixth document, “Children probably lost their carefree life as agriculture developed.” This shows that children did and learned new things instead of wasting their time doing other, unimportant things. As later stated in Document 6, “Instead of being just responsible for finding food themselves, they had to work on the land and learn to grow food and feed others.”

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.

Students will be reading an excerpt from “The Worst Mistake in the Human History of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond. The teacher selected two paragraphs from the article. Students have learned what the Neolithic Revolution brought to humans. The Neolithic Revolution brought agriculture, domesticated animals, surplus amounts of food and grew population. So far, they only have seen the positive impact from the Neolithic Revolution. This source will introduce students to the counterclaim about the Neolithic Revolution, which is the negative impact the Neolithic Revolution brought to humans. The teacher will edit the source to be more student friendly. The excerpt is one page and contains two paragraphs and bold text.

The Neolithic Revolution made food easily accessible. Document 3 states, “But it means, rather, a state of culture in which food is planted and bred, not hunted and gathered — in which food is domesticated, not wild.” This shows that the Neolithic Revolution was a time in which people moved from

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.

People are generally inclined to associate the Neolithic period with better stone tools. However, this period also brought a series of advancements assisting individuals go from being hunter-gatherers to being herders and farmers. "With this change came settled villages, the wheel, pottery, and more" (Mindsparks 8).

Before the Neolithic Revolution, civilization had not existed because humans traveled in nomadic groups. However, the environment began to change and disrupted the nomadic lifestyle human’s had led. People constantly migrated to follow their prey and relied on their hunting and gathering skills to provide nourishment to survive, until they discovered farming, which later resulted in the development of group living. The development of agriculture and group living provided food surpluses, causing the development of trade and population growth. Soon after, the population growth and established trading system led to the division of labor, eventually creating a government system. The discovery of farming changed the way the nomadic people had lived; they had to settle down in communities for their crops to be able to flourish and this created civilized societies, because of this agriculture created a new system that would soon be used across the world, a Neolithic economy.

Natufians in the the Eastern Mediterranean begin harvesting wild grasses and domesticating wheat. This time period also marks the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, which began in the ancient Near East. Climates became warmer and wetter during this time, making it possible to support growth of wild wheat and barley.

The Neolithic Revolution was the start of agriculture. Due to it causing a surplus of good production, specialized jobs were introduced. If one person has the ability to produce enough food for the entire community, then everyone else can focus on different jobs. Along with time to focus on jobs, time for recreation was introduced giving people more free time. Another long term effect of the Neolithic Revolution was that land was thought of as property because people began living in the same place for longer periods of time.

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

From the earliest times, humans lived in big groups spending most of their time hunting and gathering. This caused them to constantly be traveling looking for new resources, essentially they lived as nomads. For the most part they followed gender roles, men hunting game and women gathering berries, fruit and other edibles. These early people crafted simple tools such as axes and spears made from bone, wood, and stone. Around 10,000 BCE in South West Asia and other Areas they started to cultivate crops and animals.

During the Neolithic Revolution both the environment and human life changed for the better. Around 10,000 B.C.E the last Ice Age occurred and brought fertile soil and green forests which attracted both humans and animals. The animals that stayed around the humans were domesticated and bred with another animal along with the plants. Thanks to the Neolithic Revolution people shifted from hunting and gathering to farming which provided humans with a surplus of food and a permanent area to live in. Overall, the Neolithic Revolution had a positive impact on the environment and the quality of life of humans because of the domestication of animals,the introduction to new and different labor specializations, and lastly because of the improvement in shelter quality.

One of the biggest benefits of farming and the Neolithic revolution would be what it led to. Since farming supported larger populations, more technological advances were made. There was a proliferation of new ideas, all of which had some impact on the social lives of humans. Another benefit with farming is that now people are specialized to jobs and they can choose to do what they like to do. It also impacted by rooting people into one place forming town, villages, and making communities. There was a con side to this, however, as with the rise of cities and local government, a social hierarchy was developed. Now the elite were given the best of resources and the lower class weren’t and inequality developed. This even occurred between men and women. Now that women did not have to move around as much, they were able to produce more children and soon, that was seen as their only job. Thus they were viewed as less important in societies than men. In hunter gathering societies, none of these adversities existed as there was no need for government or hierarchies and women were an important part of the community. Another impact under hunting and gathering was that those who did had much more free time than farmers today. This is because much less time was needed to be allocated to the search of food. Instead of working 8 hours a day, only a couple hours of work were needed to find food. This free time let people

Characteristics of the Paleolithic Age – Some characteristics of the Paleolithic Age include hunting and gathering methods and living in small groups. Also using stone tools and living a nomadic lifestyle. There were four different type of stone tools used including pebbles, hand axes, flakes and pebbles. They would not plant any vegetables or grains but hunted for berries and roots in the wild. They would also fish in streams like we still do today.