Neolithic Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Life Before Agriculture
Life After Agriculture
Food Supply
Shelter
Social Structure (Government & Religion)Art and Innovation
Specialization
Language
Life Before AgricultureFood Supply
• Food gatherers not food producers
• Nomadic• Followed
migration patterns of animals
Life Before Agriculture Shelter• Lived in what
the environment could provide• Caves
• Temporary shelters
Life Before AgricultureSocial Structure• Based on the
family• Clan – group of
families
Life Before AgricultureArt and Innovation• Art work• Lascaux Cave
Paintings in France
• Primitive tools and weapons• Fire• Sewing
needles
Life Before AgricultureSpecialization• None• Subsistence
lifestyle dictated that the #1 priority for ALL family members was to find food.
Life Before AgricultureLanguage• Verbal
communication• Symbols to
mark important places
Agricultural Revolution• Man learns to farm = able to settle
in one place = able to acquire more things
• Took several thousand years
Life After AgricultureFood Supply• Food Producing• Crops
• Domesticated animals• Food• Work (beast of
burden)• Hunting
secondary
Life After AgricultureShelter• Mud bricks• Stones –
eventually• Located near
fields and other food sources
Life After AgricultureSocial Structure• When clans
started to live close to each other, social structures became more complex
• Gender separation
Life After AgricultureSocial Structure• Religion
developed• Governments
developed
Life After AgricultureArt and Innovation• Complex tools
like weapons, plows pulled by animals, cloth making and weaving, and carving were developed
• Religious buildings
• Architecture
Life After AgricultureSpecialization• Specialization
began• Not everyone
had to be a hunter or gatherer
• Trade began
Life After AgricultureLanguage• Pictographic
languages• Hieroglyphics
• Written language• Business
transactions
City
Specialized Skills
Division of labor
Written language
Cities
Civilzation
Civilizations
Characteristics?
