Unit 1 Essay: The Neolithic Revolution

Unit 1 Essay: The Neolithic Revolution

In order to get credit for this project you must write an essay on the following topic:

Depending on which hominids you want to call "human", the Stone Age or period of time that humans used stone tools, lasted several hundred thousand years and can be divided into three categories: the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and the Neolithic (New Stone Age). Human societies during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Eras practiced the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but the Neolithic Era, which began around 9,500 BC saw such a transformation in the way humans lived that historians have dubbed the era the "Neolithic Revolution." Using the knowledge of human development you have gained from your lessons in this unit, write an essay of 600 or more words that describes the political, economic, and social developments of the Neolithic Revolution and explains why this was such a "revolution" when it occurred.

An artist's rendition of Catal Huyuk, an agricultural town in Anatolia from 7500-5700 BC.