Neolithic Revolution - is the most important event in human history, which was the first noticeable on the scale of world history primitive man step to becoming civilized.
Many millennia primitive society existed virtually unchanged.Its development was going so slowly that it was almost palpable.Significant changes in various spheres of social life began only in the last century, to the same way of life of the people has not changed tens of thousands of years.
most important event of the era of the primitive society, which has led to structural changes in people's lives, has become the Neolithic Revolution, which began about 10-15 thousand years ago.At this time have to appearance of grinding tools, the emergence of agriculture and animal husbandry.Productivity of labor rights in this regard increases significantly and exceeds consumption appears excess product.This means that there is an opportunity for the accumulation of wealth and the creation of reserves.Producing economy makes people less dependent on nature.The population begins to grow.At the same time the prerequisites exploitation of some people by others (those who have accumulated wealth).
Neolithic Revolution was associated with the development of technologies of cultivation of the land and the beginning of agriculture.People first began to sow barley, wheat, beans, millet and other crops and harvest.If earlier one hunter for the normal life of the tribe had about twenty square kilometers of land, but now this area has been made possible to feed hundreds of farmers.Thus, the ecological niche has expanded to dozens or hundreds of times.To people come abundance, in the history of mankind began the "golden age."
Neolithic Revolution contributed to the beginning of the expansion of primitive society and the transition to the first forms of public entities.A new form of social organization and was named "protogosudarstva."At this time, begin to appear larger settlements becoming the administrative, cultural and religious center (city).While the leader of interests coincide with the interests of other members of society, but it is already evident social inequality, which leads to a gradual separation of these interests.
It is at this stage, the parting of the ways of development in the "western" and "eastern".The reasons for this lie in the fact that the East kept the community and public ownership of the land.This was due to the need for irrigation, which were beyond the power of individual families.In the West, where such work is not required, the community broke up much faster, and the land passed into private ownership.
Neolithic Revolution and its consequences
value changes that have occurred in the life of primitive man, is enormous.In the transition to a producing economy were running processes that eventually led to a widespread change in almost primitive to civilized relations.There was a list of fundamentally new phenomena in human life, among them - the Department of Livestock farming, and in the Bronze Age - and the allocation of the craft;deepening social and property differentiation within and between communities;the increasing role of the family;the transition from the clan to the neighbor;the emergence of a new type of large settlements.The Neolithic Revolution marked a retreat of primitive, although this process has been uneven.First there were only isolated islands formed where all the conditions for the transition to civilization.Only much later, the process has become more stable and progressive.
