Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0404 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Neolithic Revolution and Its Price
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The idea
About twelve thousand years ago agriculture and domestication began the Neolithic Revolution. Surplus food allowed larger populations and specialized labor, reduced leisure, and turned egalitarian bands into hierarchies. Çatalhöyük shows a settlement built for protection; Göbekli Tepe, cooperation before full farming.
In practice
Villages between the hunter-gatherer and the fully agricultural worlds.
Where people slip
The exam asks the price as well as the gain.
Your place on the trail
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