Neolithic Revolution(s)

2025-08-28

locations

1. anatolia
2. india
3. china
   1. north china
   2. south china
4. peru & andes
5. central america
6. sub-saharan africa

• wheat appeared in anatolia
• other crops and animals would be domesticated as well.
• people were forced to settle in one location
• villlages formed
• technology improved

pastoralists

• nomadic
• raised animals

Mesopotamia, and the first cities

neolithic southwest asia

younger dryas event

• abrupt northern hemisphere cooling following a brief warming trend after the last ice age
• early villages were small in size and people living in them led difficult lives
• population eventually grew due to stable food sources and abundance
• the first towns began to develop

cities

• surplus
• surplus allows some people to have other occupations

sumer

• believed to be the earliest development of cities
• southeastern most region of mesopotamia