HIST 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic, Fertile Crescent
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People transitioned from being hunter- gatherers to farmers (agrarian) and therefore could create a steady food supply: agrarian: society in which people farm and produce their own food, development of agriculture, domestication of plants and animals. Essays: the neolithic revolution was the first agricultural revolution. It was a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement. It occurred during (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) bc in the (cid:862)fertile crescent(cid:863) or mesopotamia. Since they lived by the water, the people of the. Neolithic period switched from hunting and gathering to farming. It led to people living in more permanent/semi-permanent settlements: fewer people still lived a nomadic life. Crescent made the production of agriculture easier because of the tools they had at their disposal. It also made transportation to surrounding places, easier. People also began to store food, rather than eat it all at once, which led to trading between settlements.
