Neolithic Revolution Research Paper

(Neolithic Revolution) Before the Neolithic Revolution took place at about 10,000 BCE people were nomads also known as hunters and gathers. Nomads traveled in groups of twenty to thirty people at a time and went where the food was. The men went hunting the food and women stayed to gather berries and other edible food. The tools most of the people used were simple and not advanced. As time went on humans began to cultivate their own crops and domesticate or tame their own animals allowing them to stay in one place. As this was introduced they changed from the
Paleolithic age to the Neolithic age. Settlements became permanent and families expanded and communities grew. This is the age when social classes first emerged. In some communities were usually run by a council of elders composed up of the heads of various families. Some of the villages were run by a chief leader. In this time period families were patriarchal or the father or eldest man in the household was in charge of the family. The women were mostly used for child bearing and house work
Some of the tools invented to make life more simple/easy to live were metal tools such as the plow and hoe or metal weapons. Other inventions included pottery and weaving. These simple inventions that seem now so out of date made life for these people a lot easier. The plow and hoe made planting a crop a lot easier. The metal weapons would have made killing something a lot easier than it had been before and were also made to defend their villages or communities valuables from other villages. They also invented the first calendar system to keep track of planting and harvesting. Pottery was used to hold and store the villager valuables food and other things. And the goods you gathered and had a surplus of had to go some place so the establishment of trade of was introduced to