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Chapter 1 (First Farmers), Sections: Breakthroughs to Agriculture

Breakthrough to agriculture The neolithic revolution refers to the deliberate cultivation of particular plants as well as taming and breeding of particular animals. new way of life replaced the earlier practices of gathering and hunting. it represented a revolutionary transformation of human across the planet. domestication the taming, the changing of nature for the benefits of human kind. Dependence of both animals to humans and viceversa  Intensification getting more for less, food and resources - growing populations

1st people

Paleolitic societies were the first human societies. It was small 20 to 50 people. It has small rate of population growth. The relationship between men and women was equal, no one has the upper hand, males role as hunter killing large animals. The main economy was gathering and hunting.  Different kinds of societies emerged out of the agricultural revolution: chiefdoms. agricultural village societies pastoral societies