How Did The Neolithic Revolution Affect The Birth Of Civilization?

The development of agriculture in the Neolithic Revolution transformed humanity, once nomadic and wide-roaming, into a stagnant society. As the capacity to produce food bolstered, so did population. The rapid populace growth led to increased interactions between humans, which spurred the development of public marketplaces and eventually cities. Starting in Mesopotamia, a fertile valley fastened between the Euphrates and the Tigris, the distinction between cities and adjacent farming lands became increasingly evident. Concurrently, the Egyptians, and their rich soil nourished by the Nile, farmed with an unprecedented productivity that drove the development of kingdoms. In both these cultures, authoritative figures rose to prominence in the city and took control of the outlying farms. By doing so, people fell into a dynamic of social classification that divided the rich and the poor. However, there is a striking synergistic relationship that can be observed in this partition of economic status: the food …show more content…
3800 B.C.E. as the Sumerians gradually cultivated a social infrastructure (35). These city-states were regulated by priests and other religious figures through taxation and law. By 2300 B.C.E., the Akkadians conquered several Sumerian cities with what is described as the world’s first army, undoubtedly aided by bronze weaponry developed ca. 2300 B.C.E. While Mesopotamia endured drastic changes in governance and civil organization, the region still made great intellectual leaps. The cuneiform writing style was conceived by the Sumerians, and saw its complexity grow in both structure and usage through the years. As writing forms sprouted, applications of mathematics and physics paralleled. The architecture created by the Mesopotamians suggest that they discovered principles of geometry and trigonometry. Moreover, their numerical system is the basis of how time is measured