Neolithic Revolution

In ancient times, approximately 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution arose and farming/agricultural societies replaced the savage-like hunter gatherer societies. This jump in technological advancements in such a small period of time was a monumental triumph for humanity as a whole, and this upward trend only continued to progress as time went on. The rise of agricultural societies was also extremely essential to the evolution of humanity because without it we would not have made advances in writing, technology, and allowed for the creation of specialized workers which have all shaped our modern lifestyle.
Writing is an extremely important asset to human existence. It allows humans to communicate more clearly with one another, trade,

Early farming civilizations, such as the Sumerians, invented scribes who documented the early reign of kings, wars, natural disasters, and other dramatic events within their societies by using this early form of writing, known as Cuneiform. Archeologists discovered clay and stone tablets where the events of these civilizations had been etched into these plates with sharpened reeds which was an early writing tool known as a stylus. Furthermore, as time went on, the invention of writing only progressed in quality and became more like our modern way of communication. For example, the Egyptians were able to develop a much more efficient and well made way of writing known as hieroglyphics, which was far more advanced than cuneiform. Hieroglyphics used a set of symbols to depict the meaning of each word, but each symbol also stood for a sound, for example, the owl stood for the sound “m”. The hunter-gatherers were not able to achieve any type of documentation near that of the Egyptians and Sumerians, even though the hunter-gatherer way of life was established approximately 200,000 years ago, compared to agricultural society which had been around approximately 10,000 years ago, and had

Very early farming societies had many more tools than hunter-gatherers that were fashioned from much stronger, practical materials. The hunter-gatherers possessed tools such as flint blades and stone scrapers, whereas early farmers used scythes and square end hoes, among other tools which were all made of metal, a far more durable material than stone. Along with these farming tools, instead of living on a day to day schedule like the savage hunter-gatherers, people within agricultural societies began to think long term, and even created a calendar. The Egyptians created a calendar almost exactly like ours today. It included 365 days in the year and it was used to help farmers tell when the Nile would overflow and when it would recede so that they could prepare and know exactly when to plant their crops for the healthiest possible harvest each year. Unlike the hunter-gatherers, who struggled to stay alive and had little to no way of combating any sort of disease or sickness, the Sumerians were able to create herbal pastes for wounds and the Egyptians went as far as being able to perform surgery. Moreover, laws were created due to the establishment of agricultural societies. Hammurabi’s Code was a set of laws that listed the exact punishment for all crimes, based on societal ranking and gender, which were