The Neolithic Revolution

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This paper analyzes the scientific revolution and outlines the scientific disciplines that developed during and after this revolution. The paper claims that all of these technologies and disciplines have helped human beings to investigate their history. Through a review of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel", the paper explains that all human understanding of the Neolithic revolution emerged from the scientific revolution.

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"The Neolithic revolution predated the scientific revolution by thousands of years. The term Neolithic revolution was coined in 1941, and describes the shift from hunting and gathering societies to human societies dependent on agriculture that occurred over 10,000 years ago (Regents Prep). Ultimately, the Neolithic revolution led to the development of human settlements, and as settlements generated surpluses of goods, trade began. Social classes grew out of inequalities in goods, and eventually entire civilizations emerged from the widespread adoption of agriculture and farming (Regents Prep). The development of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution allowed humans to stay in one spot, and develop permanent settlements. Before the cultivation of land and the domestication of animals, humans were forced to live wherever food was abundant. Once the food supply in an area ran out, humans were forced to move on in search of better supplies, a nomadic existence characterized by earlier hunter-gatherer societies (Regents Prep)."

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