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• Neolithic Revolution


  • Far-reaching results became the basis of modern civilization
• Development of civilization


  1. Ability to produce more food through farming

  2. Supported more people

  3. People grew in number

  4. Built villages and cities

  5. Created local laws and regulations

  6. Developed farming technology

  7. Controlled environment and reaped larger harvests

  8. Met the needs of population

  9. Increased population led to complex communities

  10. Changes in social and economic life led to growth of various classes
• Results of Neolithic Revolution - Basis of the modern civilization
• Results of Neolithic Revolution


  • Discovery of agriculture leading to farming society
  • Permanent Installation - result to the creation of villages
  • Increased of population due to stable means of survival thru farming and domestication of animals and plants and permanent settlement resulting to the creation of local laws and rules
  • Resulting to the development of social hierarchy
  • From villages to city life
  • Learn the techniques of irrigating
• Economic changes brought about by the Neolithic revolution


  • Man was able to produce more yields or products
  • Able to harvest more crops resulting to food surpluses
  • Man was able to development certain profession such as traders and craftsmen
• Social changes brought about by the Neolithic revolution


  • Development of more complex social structure - thus the creation of social classes
  • Development of different tasks
  • Development of rites and ceremonies intended for their gods - resulting to religious traditions
• Civilization


  A complex society that creates agricultural surpluses, allowing for specialized labor, social hierarchy, and the establishment of cities
• The word civilization came from the latin word "civitas", which means city
• What civilizations have in common


  • Advance cities
  • Religion
  • Monumental structure
  • Specialized workers
  • Complex institutions
  • Recording system
  • Technology
• Advance cities


  • Birthplaces of civilizations
  • Center of all early civilizations
  • Large populations of individuals who did not know each other lived and interacted with one another
  • Centers of trade and commerce
  • Concentrated political, religious, and social institutions that were previously spread across many smaller, separate communities, which contributed to the development of states
• State


  An organized community that lives under a single political structure
• Religion


  • A system of beliefs and behaviors that deal with the meaning of existence
  • Political leaders also acted as religious leaders
  • Religious leaders were different from the political rulers but still worked to justify and support the power of the political rulers
  • In Ancient Egypt, the kings—later called pharaohs—practiced divine kingship, claiming to be representatives, or even human incarnations, of gods
• Specialized workers


  • Artisans specializing in different crafts
  • Traders emerged
  • Government officials and priests emerged
  • Artisans who provided goods and services, and merchants who engaged in the trade of these goods
  • Lower classes of laborers who performed less specialized work, and in some cases there were slaves
• Complex institutions


  • Necessitated the creation of a system needed to organize life in the cities
  • The government maintained order, while religion became man's consoling support in times of challenges
• Recording system


  • Cuneiform writing in early Mesopotamia was first used to keep track of economic exchanges
  • Oracle bone inscriptions in Ancient China seem to have been tied to efforts to predict the future and may have had spiritual associations
  • Quipu—knotted strings used to keep records and perform calculations—appeared in South America
• Monumental architecture


  • The pyramids of Egypt, for example, were monuments to deceased rulers
  • The ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the pyramids were platforms for temples
  • Defensive walls and sewer systems provided defense and sanitation, respectively
• Technology


  • Improved stone tools to hunt larger animals
  • Scraped and polished stone tools to make them more useful as they settled in permanent homes
  • Farmers learned to use their animals in farming
  • Used engineering skills to create canals and irrigation systems to harness water for their farms