After reading and learning about the ‘Breakthroughs to Agriculture’, I now have a better understanding that Neolithic societies would have had a much harder time surviving without such efficient agricultural techniques. Without agriculture, they wouldn't have been able to provide or acclimate to a comfortable way of life. The cultivation of agriculture must have taught them how to truly appreciate what they had. While agriculture brought many positive aspects to society, it also posed negative ones. When populations began to grow even more, territory and leadership became scarce.
- One of the first human processes
- Neolithic and Agricultural Revolution
- Began roughly twelve thousand years ago
- animals were domesticated
- Relationships were created with nature
- Major dependence on plants and animals
- Agricultural Revolution spread to different regions
- During same time span
- Roughly 12,000-4000 y.a.
- In correspondence with the end of the Ice Age
- Women took on the role of innovators
- Eventually led to permanent group settlements
- Bigger populations began
- Spread by: Migration and Diffusion
- Forests become replaced by fields
- Created more jobs to tend to the agricultural upkeep
- Quality of health began to decline
- Many new technological advances
- Agricultural societies were equal
- Social classes hadn’t yet been established
- Division among societies began
- Chiefdoms and rankings
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