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Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic Revolution. Agricultural Revolution. Life Before Agriculture Food 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 .

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Neolithic Revolution

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  1. Neolithic Revolution Agricultural Revolution

  2. Life Before Agriculture Food Supply Food gatherers not food producers Nomadic Followed migration patterns of animals

  3. Life Before Agriculture Shelter Lived in what the environment could provide Caves Temporary shelters

  4. Life Before AgricultureSocial Structure Based on the family Clan – group of families

  5. Life Before AgricultureArt and Innovation Art work Lascaux Cave Paintings in France Primitive tools and weapons Fire Sewing needles

  6. Life Before AgricultureSpecialization None Subsistence lifestyle dictated that the #1 priority for ALL family members was to find food.

  7. Life Before AgricultureLanguage Verbal communication Symbols to mark important places

  8. Agricultural Revolution Man learns to farm = able to settle in one place = able to acquire more things Took several thousand years

  9. Life After AgricultureFood Supply Food Producing Crops Domesticated animals Food Work (beast of burden) Hunting secondary

  10. Life After AgricultureShelter Mud bricks Stones – eventually Located near fields and other food sources

  11. Life After AgricultureSocial Structure When clans started to live close to each other, social structures became more complex Gender separation

  12. Life After AgricultureSocial Structure Religion developed Governments developed

  13. Life After AgricultureArt and Innovation Complex tools like weapons, plows pulled by animals, cloth making and weaving, and carving were developed Religious buildings Architecture

  14. Life After AgricultureSpecialization Specialization began Not everyone had to be a hunter or gatherer Trade began

  15. Life After AgricultureLanguage Pictographic languages Hieroglyphics Written language Business transactions

  16. Specialized Skills City Division of labor Written language

  17. Cities Civilzation

  18. Civilizations Characteristics?

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