One pivotal development that lead to humans developing civilizations from hunter-gatherer groups was the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Revolution was a time where humans started developing agriculture. Agriculture is crop development and animal farming for food and animal product. The Neolithic Revolution is important because the development of agriculture allowed many people in a given area to focus on skills other than farming. This is what allowed many people to develop skills such as writing, pottery, tool development, and changes in gender roles. This agriculture development is the most important because it is whats needed for all other developments. The Neolithic Revolution lasted somewhere between 10,000BC and 2,000BC. The Neolithic …show more content…
This specialization gives way to another development which was that people depended on each other. This is important for a civilization because it means that every person has incentive to pitch in helping others. When the farmer needs the inventor for tools and the inventor needs the farmer for food it creates a dynamic between the two that will glue them together and force them to have each others interests in mind. New tools were invented in the Neolithic revolution to better suit permanent settlement and development. These tools included blades made with better materials such as obsidian for farming and harvesting purposes. Tools were also made for permanent settlements such as tools used for better preparing food, weaving. During this time period pottery was also created which served the purpose of cooking, storing and eating food. Pottery was made into containers to store food. Plates, bowls and spoons were made to eat food and pottery was also made for the purpose of cooking