1. Neolithic age and first civilizations

2. Neolithic age
Definition: Transformation of human society from hunters and gatherers to farmers and herders (food producers).
What Else Happened:
Domestication of sheep, goats, and cattle
Development of ground-stone tools
Pottery
Establishment of permanent or semipermanent settlements
Time period: Circa: 10,000 BCE and ended with the development of metal tools circa: 4000 BCE
Though those developments occurred in different parts of the world at different times.**
Neolithic, leaf-shaped, flint arrowhead found in the United Kingdom. Neolithic people mined flint, made tools, and traded them over great distances.

5. Cities and civilizations
Cities: On site of first settlements
Result of innovation rather than diffusion
Why did cities have an opportunity to come about?!
Agriculture!!!!
Civilization: Human societies that have cities and states
Some Early Examples:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus Valley region of what are now Pakistan and India
Huang He (Yellow River) valley of China
Olmec in Central America
Similarities:
Built cities (architecture)
Invented forms of writing
Learned to make pottery and use metals (metallurgy)
Domesticated animals
Specialization of labor
Created fairly complex social structures with class systems (hierarchy)

6. Resources
“Ancient civilization." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Web. 5  Sept.  <
"Neolithic Age." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, Web. 5 Sept
"Neolithic flint arrowhead." Image. Corinium Museum. World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, Web. 5 Sept
"Neolithic Revolution." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, Web. 5 Sept