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5th hour 2011-2012 AR

Religion
 * __ AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION __**
 * This **** is the time of the Neolithic era, right after the Paleolithic era. This is also known as the agricultural revolution. Many knew skills were made, like pottery, blacksmith, framing and so many more. Here are a few of the newer features of the agricultural revolution. we will talk about the religion, the work, and the many classes of society that were created in that time. also, you will see where some of our amazing newer invention orginated from. so lets start with religion, and the first thought on what god is. **

Most ancient people were known as polytheistic, which means they believed in many gods. There was believed to be sun gods, river goddesses, or anything else that had control over nature and their forces. The other gods were believed to have control over human activity such as birth, trade, or war.



[|hindu_temple_idol_worship-copy.jpg] many of the gods that they worshiped.

Written Language

The written language was possibly started by priests. They would go into caves and recorded information. This writing was made up of something called pictograms. Pictograms are drawings that show the words they represent. Symbols were later added. Writing became improved to something called a scribe to people that were more complex, Women were excluded from using them.



[|rodman-petro2.jpg] a temple in which the highest working people lived in.

JOB SPECIALIZATION

There were many skills during the agricultural revolution. Like they started the first writing language, and the first blacksmith. Many people were able to make art, like painting, sculpture, pottery, and many more. They started to build walls, and made shrines to accommodate the many gods in their beliefs. There was also being an elder of the council, and the highest of the government of their time, the priest. They ran a form of government called a bureaucracy. This is run by appointed leaders.

farming a type of wheat was important.

SOCIAL CLASSES

The social classes system ran by the money and job you have. Many people were the middle class, which is considered as a fair pay roll, a decent house, and a good job, such as a blacksmith, a farmer, or a builder. There were few who were in the upper class, which is a priest, leaders of the government, or a scribe reader. Unfortunately, there were a number of people in the lower class, which mainly consisted of slaves.

a picture of the social classes found on a pot. PUBLIC WORKS

Public works were people with everyday, or maybe some time of job you hear from someone on a regular base. Like a blacksmith, farmer, slave, or an architect. If you worked as a farmer, most likely you were bringing in crops, planting seeds, and taking care of the cattle. If you were a black smith, you worked with melting, forming, and shaping all types of metal. To make it into bars, weapons, jewelry, and many other uses that we take for granted today. As a slave, you worked for a man who owned many other slaves. You did whatever the owner said to do, and that was it. No exception, but things have now changed for the better, and we live in a free country today.



this is the earlyest farming work found yet.

Government: City governments were far more powerful than the council of elders and local chiefs of farming villages. Government became more complex as rulers issued laws, collected taxes, organized systems of defense, and enforced rules. The priests probably had the greatest power. In time warrior kings emerge as the chief political leaders. They took over the power of the old councils of elders and set themselves up as hereditary rulers who passed power from father to son. Almost always rulers claimed that their right to rule came from the gods. Over time government became bureaucracy; systems of managing government powers through departments ran by appointed officials.

The Persian empires house. From factoidz.com

Cities: the first cities emerged after framers began cultivating and fertile lands along the river valleys producing surpluses which helped populations to expand. Cities rose independently in valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the middle east, Nile river in Egypt, the Indus river, and the yellow river. Two major civilizations the Aztecs and Incas eventually emerged. Priests inspired people to build temples to their gods.



The Aztec city. From azinma.blogspot.com

Art/Architecture: arts and architecture expressed the beliefs and values of the people. Temples and palaces dominated the city scenery. Such buildings reassured people of the strength and power of their government and religion. Skilled workers built and decorated these massive buildings. They also built statues of their gods and goddesses.

This is the art and architecture of Egypt. From thevividedge.com
 * This is all we have for now. There may be more to find out about the Neolithic era, but who can guess? So we’ve given you the information, hoping to help others learn about these important times, which without the agricultural revolution, we would not have many of the great uses of land and food we have today. this is also where we got the idea of a city, and then we have come along to learning about these amazing people. **

Sites: book: world history connections to today pgs. 13-17

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and from pages 13 to 17 in the world history connections today, by elisabeth gaynor ellis, and anthonyesler, in 1997.