Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution is a turning point because...

• Historians love fancy words

• It changed human history FOREVER

• It continued habits from Paleolithic times

The Neolithic Revolution is...

• When humans began migrating around the world

• When humans discovered fire

• When domestication of plants & animals began

Domestication is...

• Breeding animals/plants for qualities you like

• Migration from Africa to Asia

• Cats & dogs

SOCIAL life changed in the Neolithic Revolution because...

• Surplus of food led to social classes, but before everyone was the same

• Food scarcity forced humans to be in small groups of hunter-gatherers

• Everyone was egalitarian

POLITICAL life changed in the Neolithic Revolution because...

• Kings were at the top of the Social Hierarchy afterward

• Everyone remained equal

• Farming made people sick and die

ECONOMIC life changed because of the Neolithic Revolution because...

• women and men remained equal

• People started to farm instead of hunt & gather

• Women became more powerful than men

SEDENTARY life is...

• settled life- as in farms & civilizations

• nomadic life- as in migration from place to place

• pastoral life- as in herders or cowboys

PATRIARCHY is

• Men have all the power

• Egalitarian/equal

• Who run the world? Girls!

Specialization of labor is...

• People have different jobs

• Everyone farms so there is enough food

• Migration

PASTORALISM is

• Hunter-gatherers- they follow animals to hunt & gather food

• Farmers- they stay in one place to harvest agriculture

• Herders- they move their cattle or sheeps from place to place to graze