*History 8 Neolithic Revolution Notes

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Emergence of Agriculture

• Page 1-2 The Emergence of Sedentary Agriculture

• Page 3 Understanding the New Mode of Life

• Page 4 What are the opportunities of the new way of life?

• Pages 5-6 Problems

• Page7 Population Growth and Epidemic Diseases

Technology

• Pages 1-3. What were some of the technological changes necessary to sustain the new sedentary, agricultural mode of life?

• Page 4-5 Processing Cereal Grains

• Page6 gender roles

*Pages 7-9 Pottery and Weaving

Page 10

• What were the cultural changes necessary?

*What are some of the advantages of economic specialization?

• Why did it begin to occur shortly after agriculture emerged as a way of life?

Domestication

*Page 1 What are agriculture and monoculture? Advantages and disadvantages.

*Page 2 Domestication process

*Page 3 Erosion

*Page 4 Maize

*Page 5 Domestication of animals

*Page 6 Learning to Use What is Available

Social Consequences

*Page 1 Introduction and definitions

*Page 2 The Emergence of Elites

*Page 3 Urban Life

*Page 4 Consequences