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Neolithic Revolution: Greatest Achievement or Worst Mistake?

Explore the impact of the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to settled farming communities. Discover how farming influenced economies, lifestyles, social class divisions, warfare, governments, and more.

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Neolithic Revolution: Greatest Achievement or Worst Mistake?

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  1. Do Now: Was farming the greatest achievement or worst mistake in human history?

  2. Moon Landing

  3. Bombing of Hiroshima

  4. The Neolithic Revolution Was farming the greatest achievement or worst mistake in human history?

  5. What was the Neolithic Revolution? • Date – 8,000 BC to 4,000 BC • Neolithic Revolution – When people stopped moving in search of food because they learned how to grow crops. They became the first farmers and began to build villages. • Civilization – These are complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

  6. How did farming impact our world?

  7. Economies Lifestyle Specialization of Labor Social Class Division Warfare Governments and laws Increase in population Health Calendar Food Surplus How did the Neolithic Revolution Impact the World?

  8. Food Surplus Creation of cities Government Increase in technology Development of Formal Education Increase in Personal Property Farming As an Achievement

  9. Farming As a Mistake One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't [copied] neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, “Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

  10. Farming As a Mistake • Health: • Height decreased: Pre-Farming 5’9 for men and 5’5 for women… Post-Farming 5’5 for men and 5’0 for women. • Life Expectancy: Pre-Farming 26 years, Post Farming 19 years • Malnutrition • Disease spreads quickly in villages & cities

  11. Inequalities Men and Women: Increased pregnancies = decline in health Social Class Division: Whoever controls the grains controls the village Farming As a Mistake

  12. Diamond, Jared. “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race.” Discover, May 1987, pp. 64-66 Bibliography

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