1. Agricultural Revolution

2. The Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Times
Key Query: How did farming change people’s lives?
Life in the Neolithic Age
Key Query: What was life like during the Neolithic Age?
Civilizations Emerge
Key Query: What characteristics did early civilizations share?

3. Ch. 3 Lesson 2 Neolithic Vocabulary
Domesticate: to adapt an animal to living w/ humans
Neolithic Age: relating to the last period of the Stone Age
Systematic Agriculture: the organized system of growing food on the regular basis
Shrine: a place where people worship
Specialization: the act of training for a particular job
Bronze Age: the period in ancient human culture when people began to make and use bronze
Monarchy: a government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent.

4. Neolithic Age (c. 8000 BCE-c. 4000 BCE)
Farming replaced hunting and gathering; switched to systematic agriculture, growing food on the regular basis
People began to live in settled communities, such as villages. Some were larger than others.
People domesticated animals for milk, meat, and wool.
Domestication is the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.
Neolithic Age began circa 8000 B.C. and ended around 4000 B.C.
Farming replaced hunting and gathering; switched to systematic agriculture, growing food on the regular basis
People domesticated animals for milk, meat, and wool
Not everyone switched to farming or systematic agriculture. Some people still hunted and gathered food.

5. Big Changes for Humankind
Historians call this period the Agricultural Revolution
People lived differently:
They produced constant food supply
Population grew at a faster rate
Nomads gave up their way of life and began living in settle communities

6. Widespread Farming
By 4000 B.C. farming became an economic activity; people made a living by farming
People grew:
Egypt – wheat and barley
Central Africa – yams and bananas
China – millet and rice
Central America – corn, squash and potatoes; domesticated chicken and dogs

7. Life in the Neolithic Age
Key Query: What was life like in the Neolithic Age?
People settled in villages
Built permanent homes
Villages were located near fields so people could plant, grow and harvest crops

8. Neolithic Communities
Neolithic farming developed throughout Europe, India, Egypt, China and Mexico.
Biggest & earliest known community was called Jericho in Southwest Asia
Jericho located in present-day Israel and Jordan, called the West Bank
Catalhuyuk was another city located in present-day Turkey.
Homes were made of sun-dried brick or mud brick
Shrines were built to worship gods and goddesses
Catalhuyuk was another city located in present-day Turkey.
Homes were made of sun-dried brick or mud brick
Shrines were built to worship gods and goddesses

9. What Were the Benefits of a Settled Life?
Provided greater security
Steady food supply created healthier, growing populations
Produce more food than they can eat; began trading food for supplies they couldn’t produce for themselves
Specialization – people took up specific jobs as their talents allowed
Role of men and women changed
Rapid population growth cause resources such as wood supplies to be used up quickly.
Loss of forestation (plants and trees) caused desert-like conditions to spread.

10. What Were the Benefits of a Settled Life? (cont.)
Roles of Men
Roles of Women
Worked the fields to farm and herd animals
Responsible for growing food
Protected village
Family and community leaders
Bore children
Stayed in villages
Wove cloth using wool from sheep
Used bone needles to make clothes from cloth and animal skins
Managed food supplies

11. Traits of a Civilization
Monarchy became the first type of government with a king.
People in civilizations began to trade to gain wealth

12. The End of the Neolithic Age
Bronze Age
People began to make tools and weapons with copper because it was easier to make than with stones.
Craftspeople in western Asia discovered that mixing copper and tin formed bronze
Bronze was stronger than copper; widely used between 3000 and 1200 BCE
Many people could not afford bronze and continued to use stone.

13. Make a web chart like this one on your notes
Neolithic Advancements