neolithic revolution essay

Without the Neolithic Revolution the world would know no wars, and would have had no epidemics. All the things that happened after the Neolithic Revolution, like cars, boats, and planes, would never even come into the thoughts of humans. It would have been a world without history other than hunting, gathering and wandering. The Neolithic Revolution is the period when people started domesticating animals, like dogs for the hunt. Chickens, goats, among others were also raised for food. This lead to farming, or agriculture, which is the base of any civilization or city, and one of the 7 traits. The others are: government and military religion writing social structure art and architecture material possessions and technology A village is made up of everyone doing their own types of jobs: the farmers farming, the metalworkers making things out of metal, and so on. This structure wouldn’t be possible without specialization of labor. Farmers surplused food so everyone else could work on other things. Art and architecture are a couple of other things they could work on. Specialization of labor helped create civilization and the 7 traits.
Cities are big villages that are more complex. All of the 7 traits came from cities and specialization of labor. If the nomads hadn’t started farming, than there wouldn’t have been time to pursue religion, and art, things that are taken for granted now. If people didn’t start pursuing religion, then there wouldn’t be any writing or social structure. Priests became higher above everybody else because they were closer to god, creating the social structure pyramid. The first writing was priests drawing pictograms to record offerings. Military came from cities because they had to protect their land from people who wanted the land for their own. Government came from military because they had to making sure that people were at peace with each other and command them. Without the Neolithic Revolution, the world as we know