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    The Neolithic Revolution started in Mesopotamia, which is located in the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates in 12,000 to 8,000 B.C.E. due to the creation of agriculture leading certain societies to urban settlements and civilizations. Even till this day, the Neolithic Revolution is evident in our demographics with highly populated cities, social societies in our equalities and inequalities between men and women, politics such as laws, and economies dependent on trade. For example, the Code

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    Kille November 30, 2017 Neolithic Revolution The Neolithic revolution has influenced encompassing the centuries 13,000 B.C to 5000 B.C in many continents changed society from hunter-gatherer to agriculture. Along with this came change in life style, human dynamics and population. Throughout its discovery revealed down faults and successes that created our current agriculture. Discoveries such as clothing, wovel, makeup products were essential for individuals. Neolithic Revolution is one of human

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    changed the course of history for nations and people. The Paleolithic Era and Neolithic Revolution was a turning point that changed the orbit of history for mankind. In Documents 1, 2, and 4, they explain life before the Neolithic Revolution and what changed during the period and provide an analysis of results of the revolution. They introduce food supply and settlement, and civilization and trade. During the Neolithic Revolution, food was obtained by producing it. They developed the ability to farm

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    environmental changes and having to adapt to them. Adapting to new environments can cause long-term political, social, and economic effects on societies and regions. A lot of the changes regarding food production mainly happened during the Neolithic Revolution. Before the Neolithic Revolution, humans had to depend more on animals than plants as a food source. The Paleolithic men "... relied on foraging, hunting, fishing, and trapping..." They couldn't control their food supply therefore had to depend on doing

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    and stone, and paintings on the walls of caves and rock structures. There was not much structure built or agriculture done in this period as the people lived a nomadic lifestyle, migrating with the herds of animals they hunted for food. Neolithic: The Neolithic period lasted from about 9000 b.c. to about 8000 b.c. It was the last phase of the Stone Age; and encompassed the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacturing of pottery and textiles. During this period

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    nomads who followed their food source around and were hunters and gathers. Although it took many years, from 8000B.C. to 3000B.C. for humans to go from hunters and gathers to a more common day life as we now know it, the result is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution the begins of human civilization. As the people of this time began to settle down and they began to both farm the land and domesticate animals for the better of the community. Along with the development of these communities as for the

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    Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The Paleolithic, which lasted until about 10,000 years ago, had a significant separating factor from the Neolithic, ending in 2000 B.C.E. This factor was the way in which the people in these periods acquired food. The Paleolithic people hunted and gathered their food while the Neolithic people produced their own food by agriculture. These two different styles of obtaining food greatly affected the lifestyles of each period’s people. The

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    I would prefer living in the Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Era. One main reason is that the Paleolithic men were much healthier than the Neolithic men in the ways that, Paleolithic men were foragers and they moved their food which led them to not staying in one spot permanently. This means that sickness and diseases were not easily passed on. Unlike the Neolithic men who did have permanent settlements and had illness passed around quite easily. Also it says in the passage Old Stone Age vs.

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    The Neolithic period, which occurred during the Holocene Epoch, is defined as the final period of the Stone Age (Violatti, C. 2014). According Encyclopaedia Britannica it is marked as being “the final stage of the cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans”. The Neolithic period saw the beginning of agricultural practices, and the keeping of livestock (Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2014). As the Neolithic phenomenon spread across Europe, populations changed from being hunter-gathers

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    Do you ever wish you could go back in history? If you answered yes then you should learn more about the Paleolithics and the Neolithics. These two cultures are extremely different, but were basically the founding fathers for the way we’ve evolved and live today. The evidence that Jared Diamond presented in his article seemed overwhelming. First he explained how the Neolithic had poor nutrition from their starchy crops and their diets all consisted of rice, wheat, and corn which are all deficient in

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