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