What is the Neolithic revolution?
Q: What is the Neolithic revolution?
A: The Neolithic revolution was the first agricultural revolution. It was a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities to agriculture and settlement, which changed the way of life of the communities that made the transition.
Q: When did it occur?
A: The Neolithic revolution occurred in different prehistoric human societies at different times, with many societies changing 9–7 thousand years ago.
Q: What changes occurred during this time period?
A: During this time period, early agriculture techniques were adopted, crop cultivation took place, and animals were domesticated. People also began living in permanent or semi-permanent settlements instead of leading a nomadic lifestyle, land ownership was developed, population sizes grew, diets shifted to include more vegetable and cereal foods, hierarchies developed in society, grain was stored and traded for surplus production from good crop yields.
Q: How did it affect people's lifestyles?
A: The Neolithic revolution changed people's lifestyles by transitioning them away from a nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle to one based on agriculture and settlement. This led to fewer people leading a nomadic lifestyle as well as changes in social organization and technology such as land ownership being developed.
Q: How did it affect diet?
A: As part of the transition to an agricultural lifestyle during the Neolithic revolution, people's diets shifted to include more vegetable and cereal foods than before.
Q: What other effects did it have on society?
A: In addition to affecting diet and lifestyle through transitioning away from a nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle towards one based on agriculture and settlement; population sizes grew; hierarchies developed; grain could be stored for trade or surplus production; land ownership was established; social organization changed; technology advanced.
