1. 3 Week common Assessment review
The Neolithic revolution

2. Neolithic Revolution
sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel (July 29, 2011). "When the World's Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition". Science. 333 (6042): 560–561. Bibcode:2011Sci B. PMID doi: /science Retrieved June 10, 2012.

3. Neolithic Revolution Cause & effect
- Hunting and gathering bands scattered seeds near campsites resulting in the growth of crops
-Shift from food gathering to food producing.
-Establishment of permanent settlements and eventually the first cities.
- Climate changes that created a rise in temperatures resulted in longer growing seasons and drier land.
-Writing developed as a method of record keeping related to farming and flooding of the rivers.
-A need for oversight of irrigation systems led to the development of government.
-Settled communities created common cultures and were characterized by less social equality in comparison to hunting and gathering societies.
-Villages were susceptible to attacks from outsiders and susceptible to natural disasters.
-Close proximity of people facilitated the spread of disease.

4. Development of River Valley Civilizations
Causes - Spread of agricultural practices and the domestication of animals allowed for more sophisticated and larger settlements to emerge. - The first large settled societies emerge where there was access to fresh water, along the Tigris/Euphrates, the Nile, the Indus and the Huang He rivers. (Beginning in the middle east) - Periodic flooding of the rivers provided rich fertile soil for sustaining agricultural surplus and increasing populations.

6. Development of River Valley Civilizations
Effects
- Civilization emerged with common political, economic, and cultural patterns.
- Surplus agricultural output allowed some not to farm and new specialization of labor emerged.
- Social divisions became more pronounced as ownership of land became a determinant of wealth.
- Organized religions developed, first distinguished as mostly polytheist
- Advances were made in mathematics, time keeping, metal working and monumental building
- Law codes were introduced