The Neolithic Revolution

WHAT?

WHEN?

CONSEQUENCES?

WHY?

Specialization in societies: professions and social classes

Writing

Need for more reliable food resource

Human communities

Climate change

The beginning of the agriculture

Systemic way of producing grain

Sophistication of stone tools

Large scale production using the rivers and irrigation systems

Grain production

Warmer period after the last ice age 100000 yrs. ago

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Large game diminshed / vanished

Human experiment with grains

Domestication of animals

WHERE?

Domestication of plants

First villages

Human brain capasity extended

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First urban centers

First great Ancient Civilizations

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Yangtse-River

Meso-Americas

Crete

Middle East

Environmental problems

Urban lifestyle

Free time

Cultivation methods

Surplus of grain production

Birth of sciences

Creation of Arts

Population groth

Cultivation methods developed

Use of technology

End of the nomadic lifestyle

app. 100000 yrs. ago

Pictographic

Linear A and B styles

Indus

Middle East

Mesopotamia

Egypt