The Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Classical Ages affected human history both politically and socially with the invention of agriculture. Politically, the Paleolithic Age comprised of small bands of Nomadic people. Throughout 8000 BCE and 600 CE, the Nomadic people began to taper in size, but never disappeared. In the Neolithic and Classical Ages, Nomadic people continued to live as their ancestors had in the Paleolithic Age. The major change happened in the Neolithic Age when agriculture emerged. This diffusion of the agricultural life style caused the major changes of this time period. Political life expanded, and inequality appeared in many civilizations. Between 8000 BCE and 600 CE, human history was effected by an advance in government,
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In the Paleolithic Age, social life was straight forward. There was equality between genders, and each gender had a specific job: the women gathered while the men hunted. The Paleolithic people didn’t have social classes. The nomads of the Paleolithic Age moved to follow the animals they hunted. This cause the Paleolithic societies to only consist of twenty to fifty people. Not much is known about how Paleolithc people lived due to the lack of written language. The Neotlithic age brought much more information on how people lived. Agriculture was discovered in the Neolithic age, causing people to have more time to develop writing and social structure. With the invention of agriculture, social classes emerged. The specialization of labor progressed into more than just jobs by gender. People began to specialize in tasks such as farming or art. Merchants were treated in a number of ways. In the Huang He river valley civilization, merchant were viewed as making shameful profit from the work of others. In other civilizations such, as the Egyptian civilization, merchants were held to higher praise. In the Neolithic Age, populations began to grow due to people settling down in one place. Settling down created a number of changes in how social life worked. Religion became a big factor in many cultures. In the Mesopotamian Civilizations, the people blamed the Gods for everything bad that happened in life. This differed from how the Egyptians treated religion. Egyptians gave credit to the Gods for everything that happened, whether it was good or bad. These religious belifs shaped society around them. The Kings, Emperors, and Pharaohs were all said to have direct relations to the Gods. Rulers of the Neolithic age had much to do with the religion of the civilization. In the Classical age, religion distanced itself from the rulers of the civilizations. The social life of the
In the Paleolithic Age, social life was straight forward. There was equality between genders, and each gender had a specific job: the women gathered while the men hunted. The Paleolithic people didn’t have social classes. The nomads of the Paleolithic Age moved to follow the animals they hunted. This cause the Paleolithic societies to only consist of twenty to fifty people. Not much is known about how Paleolithc people lived due to the lack of written language. The Neotlithic age brought much more information on how people lived. Agriculture was discovered in the Neolithic age, causing people to have more time to develop writing and social structure. With the invention of agriculture, social classes emerged. The specialization of labor progressed into more than just jobs by gender. People began to specialize in tasks such as farming or art. Merchants were treated in a number of ways. In the Huang He river valley civilization, merchant were viewed as making shameful profit from the work of others. In other civilizations such, as the Egyptian civilization, merchants were held to higher praise. In the Neolithic Age, populations began to grow due to people settling down in one place. Settling down created a number of changes in how social life worked. Religion became a big factor in many cultures. In the Mesopotamian Civilizations, the people blamed the Gods for everything bad that happened in life. This differed from how the Egyptians treated religion. Egyptians gave credit to the Gods for everything that happened, whether it was good or bad. These religious belifs shaped society around them. The Kings, Emperors, and Pharaohs were all said to have direct relations to the Gods. Rulers of the Neolithic age had much to do with the religion of the civilization. In the Classical age, religion distanced itself from the rulers of the civilizations. The social life of the