1. Topic: Neolithic Revolution
Essential Question:
What were the causes & effects of the Neolithic Revolution?
Do Now: what is a revolution?
Objectives:
identify the causes that triggered the Neolithic revolution
Analyze the impact of the Neolithic revolution

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What is a revolution?
Revolution = change
A major change occurred from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Era
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NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
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Neolithic Revolution!
On a SEPARATE SHEET of paper write down the causes & the effects of the Neolithic Revolution!!
Back in the day…

5. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION CAUSES & EFFECTS

6. COMIC ANALYSIS ACTIVITY
Analyze the pictures and text and write down what you think were
the causes (reasons) for the start of the Neolithic Revolution
what immediate effects (impact) it had

7. NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION CAUSES & EFFECTS
Lack of food
Discovered how to grow food (farm)
Learned how to use animals for work (called domestication*)
Steady food supply
Permanent settlements (no longer nomads)
Beginning of civilization

8. CREATE THIS ORGANIZER IN YOUR NOTES
Food Supply:
Housing/Shelter:
NEOLITHIC LIFE
CREATE THIS ORGANIZER IN YOUR NOTES
Tools:
Social Group:

9. PALEOLITHIC
NEOLITHIC
Era
Paleo = old stone age
Neo = new stone age
*agricultural revolution
food
From hunting & gathering
Farming & domesticating animals
housing
Caves, moved place to place
Built permanent homes near the rivers
women
Gathered plants
Took care of home & kids
men
Hunted animals
Hunting & farming
tools
Stone tools & fire
Iron tools (ex. Plows)

10. How did life change after the Neolithic Revolution?