Agriculture: After the Paleolithic Era, came the start of a new beginning, The Neolithic Era or the Agricultural Revolution. This beginning lead to new transformations of human life throughout the world and created a start to many things such as; expanding populations, settled villages, animal-borne diseases, cities, states, empires, writing, literature, etc. As the ages progressed, humans also began to advance with times and animals began to start selective breeding which helped produce more essentials. During this era, advancements in hunting and gathering was also made which allowed for more food and more of expansion to the population. This created the growing populations to crave for a more intensive need to the environment.
During this time period the revolution scattered many parts of the world. And every part of the world would begin to grow many different things that would vary on many different cultures. Women were connected with collecting wild plants and led the way to farming, whereas men would taking the lead in domesticating animals. The areas that had resource rich-materials allowed hunting and gathering people to establish more permanent villages. However, settling down caused them to lose many skills that they had gained from their ancestors which led them to figure out how to support the growth of the expanding populations. Since the new era brought improved climate conditions, the disappearing of large animals and a more fluctuation in the global warming process, created a less risk to human life and increased the amount of food population.
This new way of life also brought new ways of technology such as the “digging stick or hoe”. However, this new technology depended on what grew in that certain region or area, such as; potatoes were found in the Andes region but not in Africa or Asia. Out of the many different species and foods in the world, more than half of the calories in human life was sustained by wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum. The era of agriculture happened during a cold/dry spell between 11,000 and 9,500 B.C.E.
