The Neolithic Revolution: The Creation Of Civilization

The Neolithic revolution, started the use of agriculture throughout the world. It occurred due to gradually change in the early human from being hunters and gatherers to being farmers and growing their own food. After these first humans realized that they can grow there own food in one location, they decreased the use of hunting and gathering, switching to the use of farming to obtain food. The raising of crops supplied these early humans with their demand for grains and vegetables, while the taming of animals gave these humans the meat, milk, and other animals products such as wool, and hind, that they need for survival. The switch to farming compelled these early humans to start creating fixed dwellings around their farms. The creation of
A civilization also needed to have an organized government, and armies were needed to gain land and power. Civilizations also had basic social structures based on the civilians economic power, there were the kings and high priest on the top, a large group of common people, and at the bottom were slaves. Civilizations contributed to the specialization of skills as well, the need for other jobs created other jobs besides farming, like merchants and artisans. With the creation of civilization came distinct religious structure as well, religion became more critical in their society, causing priests to become more powerful in society. As civilizations emerged, keeping records of events became crucial, therefore a form of writing was created so that there was an efficient way of remembering things. The last characteristic of civilization is that there was new and significant artistic and intellectual activity, like great architectural advances scattered about urban areas. There is not exact reason why civilizations emerged, in fact some historians doubt that we will ever find out why civilizations were created but other historians have many theories. One of the theories is that challenges forced humans to make efforts which contributed to the rise of civilizations. Another theory is that material forces, such as
Its flooding every September and October left deposits of silt along the banks that created fertile miles of fertile soil along the Nile’s banks. These areas of fertile soil created perfect spots for farms, and since crops grew so well in the fertile soil the civilians of Ancient Egypt to have an ample amount of farm produced foods. The Nile also survived as Ancient Egypt’s most effective way of transportation. Since currents carried boats north, and gusts of wind from the north carried the sailboats south, transportation and communication was much more effective than other civilizations at the time. Egypt's location made invasions scare, due to the fact that the deserts to the east and west and raids in the Nile to the south surrounded the civilization. These barriers around the civilization however did not affect trade, giving Egypt the best possible situation, the ability to trade and the security from the threat of invasion. Religion was very important and respected in Ancient Egypt’s culture. The Pharaoh was not only a ruler to the people of Egypt, but he was also seen as a God. This gave Pharaohs an abundance of power. The people believed when the Pharaoh was doing his job right when times were well, but when times were bad, they blamed the