Neolithic Period (jan 1, 9000 BC – jan 1, 4000 BC)

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- “New Stone Age”
- Agricultural Revolution
- Different times in different places
- Look at chart
- The earlier agriculture was developed the earlier the civilization developed, so does domestication of animals
- Exception was the Americans (animal domestication)
- Introduction of diary into diet
- Permanent settlements = larger populations
- Land as property
- Systematic, organized power/regularizations
- Specialization of labor
- Catal Huyuk
- Ca. 7000-6000 BCE
- Pop. 5-7000
- Modern southern turkey
- Primarily agriculture
- Hunting is still important
- No streets, entrance through roofs
- Uses of Metal
- Copper (5000’s BCE in Mesopotamia)
- Bronze (c. 2500 BCE in Mesopotamia)
- Iron (c. Iron 1500 BCE in Hittite kingdom/Turkey)

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