How Did The Neolithic Revolution Affect Society

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Throughout the neolithic revolution society began to slowly change and build up to what society is today. To understand how humans began to change there need to be a reason behind and how this all happened. At the end of the ice age temperature shifts began to form changing the environment drastically. As environments changed many plants and animals began to biologically adapt to their environment to increase their chance of survival. Ultimately this lead to many changes to the way the early dweller would survive. Many had to change hunting patterns and continue as nomads and herders. But the most influential change early humans had developed a system of agriculture. Ultimately, agriculture was the most influential change we had not only to the neolithic age but changed the way society is today. Without the agricultural revolution the world would not be what is is today. At the start of the Neolithic age around 12,000 years ago the transformation of climate and weather began to uphold new societies …show more content…

Agriculture was a long process of trial and error but this can depend on the location early settlers have settled in. But agriculture was known to be the most influential part of human society. This is due to the fact that agriculture has changed the way we gathered food. The thing with agriculture is that new methods were created. With these new methods a new social order formed throughout the world. Many civilizations have formed a need for a form of government to keep the process of gathering in order. This was a natural process and ideas began to diffuse into cultures but some didn't always do the same things. Many forms of chiefdom, democracy and egalitarianism began to develop as well as some began to have distinctive gender roles. The Agriculture revolution was not only influential for the Neolithic revolution. But it build the base for how society is

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