Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

The Neolithic agricultural revolution, which took place between about 9000 B.C. and about 5000 B.C., was so important to the development of civilization because if it never happened people would still be living in nomadic groups as hunter-gatherers. At first early people learned to raise wheat, barley, rice, and millet. They learned to make furrows in the ground with sharpened sticks and placed the seeds in the burrows. They let the plants grow on their own at first and let the elements take care of what happened.

Sometime in the future the plow and fertilizer were invented which helped both the production of food and the rate that it grew. The four major places of the agricultural revolution were the Nile River valley in Africa, the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southwestern Asia, the Indus River valley in southern Asia, and the Huang River valley in eastern Asia. At some point in the year the rivers overflow their banks which the people living in the areas would direct the water through canals so that they could get enough water to their crops but not too much. The area that we most know about is the Nile River valley, Egypt. People wonder why they lived in a desert but it used to be a green fertile area which is one reason that their civilization succeeded for a long time.

The primary changes from the Paleolithic age to the Neolithic age is the domestication of animals, agriculture, and the advancement of tools and weapons. Females domesticated animals and did much of the farming so they could watch and take care of their children. Men dug canals, cut down trees, and mad and found materials for tools to help build the civilization. When someone found out that there were parts of food that you could burry to make more food the agricultural revolution started. People settled down and began to live in urban areas which developed into trading areas which developed into a civilization. An example of the advancement of tools and weapons is the canoe...