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Directions: Read and analyze the following documents and answer the accompanying questions in order to create an original thesis on the impact of the Neolithic Revolution.-117475276225My name is Ogg, and I am a hunter. I usually walk a great distance each day to find my food. . . .I continue to hunt for a living, even though many of my friends have given up. They have learned to plant crops and keep animals. They live in houses made of brick, stone, and grass.One day, while returning from the hunt, I happened to pass the field of my friendsUlana and Lute. . . .“Look how well we live,” Ulana replied. “We have a steady supply of meat, milk, vegetables, and wool. In fact, we have everything we need.” . . .“We are not afraid, nor are we hungry. We all work together and help one another.Some till the soil. Others care for the animals. Still others make weapons and tools.We trade goods with people in other villages. You should give up the hunt and join us,Ogg. You will have a better life.” . . .I left Ulana and continued to hunt for my food. But last week I returned from the hunt empty-handed every day. I was cold, tired, and hungry. . . .Source: Henry Abraham and Irwin Pfeffer, Enjoying Global History, AMSCO00My name is Ogg, and I am a hunter. I usually walk a great distance each day to find my food. . . .I continue to hunt for a living, even though many of my friends have given up. They have learned to plant crops and keep animals. They live in houses made of brick, stone, and grass.One day, while returning from the hunt, I happened to pass the field of my friendsUlana and Lute. . . .“Look how well we live,” Ulana replied. “We have a steady supply of meat, milk, vegetables, and wool. In fact, we have everything we need.” . . .“We are not afraid, nor are we hungry. We all work together and help one another.Some till the soil. Others care for the animals. Still others make weapons and tools.We trade goods with people in other villages. You should give up the hunt and join us,Ogg. You will have a better life.” . . .I left Ulana and continued to hunt for my food. But last week I returned from the hunt empty-handed every day. I was cold, tired, and hungry. . . .Source: Henry Abraham and Irwin Pfeffer, Enjoying Global History, AMSCODocument 1 Identify one way that progress during the Neolithic Revolution helped Ulana and her friends.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Document 2center0From Food Gathering to Food Producing. . . Paleolithic men could not control their food supply. So long as they relied on foraging, hunting, fishing, and trapping, they were dependent on the natural food supply in a given area to keep from starving. But while Paleolithic men continued their food-gathering pattern of existence in Europe, Africa, and Australia, groups of people in the Near East began to cultivate edible plants and to breed animals. Often described as the “first economic revolution” in the history of man, this momentous change from a food-gathering to a food-producing economy initiated the Neolithic Age. Paleolithic man was a hunter; Neolithic man became a farmer and herdsman. . . .Source: T. Walter Wallbank, et al., Civilization: Past and Present, Scott, Foresman and Company00From Food Gathering to Food Producing. . . Paleolithic men could not control their food supply. So long as they relied on foraging, hunting, fishing, and trapping, they were dependent on the natural food supply in a given area to keep from starving. But while Paleolithic men continued their food-gathering pattern of existence in Europe, Africa, and Australia, groups of people in the Near East began to cultivate edible plants and to breed animals. Often described as the “first economic revolution” in the history of man, this momentous change from a food-gathering to a food-producing economy initiated the Neolithic Age. Paleolithic man was a hunter; Neolithic man became a farmer and herdsman. . . .Source: T. Walter Wallbank, et al., Civilization: Past and Present, Scott, Foresman and CompanyAccording to the authors of this passage, what is one significant change that occurred between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Document 3Which method of subsistence [survival] required the least amount of land?______________________________________________________________________________-136525212090The first farmers were less healthy than the hunter-gatherers had been in their heyday. Aside from their shorter stature, they had more skeletal wear and tear from the hard work, their teeth rotted more, they were short of protein and vitamins and they caught diseases from domesticated animals: measles from cattle, flu from ducks, plague from rats and worms from using their own excrement as fertilizer.Source: The Economist, December 22, 2007. “Noble or Savage?”00The first farmers were less healthy than the hunter-gatherers had been in their heyday. Aside from their shorter stature, they had more skeletal wear and tear from the hard work, their teeth rotted more, they were short of protein and vitamins and they caught diseases from domesticated animals: measles from cattle, flu from ducks, plague from rats and worms from using their own excrement as fertilizer.Source: The Economist, December 22, 2007. “Noble or Savage?”Document 4How did the domestication of animals impact the health of humans?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-69850295275Despite images of cave men dragging women off by the hair, it is quite clear that hunting and gathering societies did not subordinate women systematically. Women’s contributions were reflected in a religious culture that often stressed the female creative principle [a female deity created the world]. This situation changed as agriculture became established. (Interestingly, non-farming societies continued to give women greater voice, which led to some important culture clashes when they encountered agricultural civilizations.)The signs of change abound. Men did the heaviest agricultural work; Middle Eastern art by 3000 B.C.E. showed men always responsible for plowing. Because men’s relative economic importance grew, male children were favored and men had primary rights of property ownership…emphasis on a primary male creator increased. By 2000 B.C.E., many Middle Eastern women were veiled to help ensure they would remain sexually faithful to their husbands.Source: Adapted from World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, Peter Stearns00Despite images of cave men dragging women off by the hair, it is quite clear that hunting and gathering societies did not subordinate women systematically. Women’s contributions were reflected in a religious culture that often stressed the female creative principle [a female deity created the world]. This situation changed as agriculture became established. (Interestingly, non-farming societies continued to give women greater voice, which led to some important culture clashes when they encountered agricultural civilizations.)The signs of change abound. Men did the heaviest agricultural work; Middle Eastern art by 3000 B.C.E. showed men always responsible for plowing. Because men’s relative economic importance grew, male children were favored and men had primary rights of property ownership…emphasis on a primary male creator increased. By 2000 B.C.E., many Middle Eastern women were veiled to help ensure they would remain sexually faithful to their husbands.Source: Adapted from World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, Peter StearnsDocument 5According to the excerpt, what is one way in which women’s lives changed as a result of the establishment of agriculture [farming]?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Document 6center0There are at least three sets of reasons to explain the findings that agriculture was bad for health. First, hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet, while early fanners obtained most of their food from one or a few starchy crops. The farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition. Second, because of dependence on a limited number of crops, farmers ran the risk of starvation if one crop failed. Finally, the mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies, many of which then carried on trade with other crowded societies, led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease. Epidemics couldn't take hold when populations were scattered in small bands that constantly shifted camp [nomads]. Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearance of large cities.Source: Jared Diamond, "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover Magazine, May 1987, pp. 64-6600There are at least three sets of reasons to explain the findings that agriculture was bad for health. First, hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet, while early fanners obtained most of their food from one or a few starchy crops. The farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition. Second, because of dependence on a limited number of crops, farmers ran the risk of starvation if one crop failed. Finally, the mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies, many of which then carried on trade with other crowded societies, led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease. Epidemics couldn't take hold when populations were scattered in small bands that constantly shifted camp [nomads]. Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearance of large cities.Source: Jared Diamond, "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover Magazine, May 1987, pp. 64-66Identify three reasons, according to Jared Diamond, that agriculture was bad for health.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Document 7Based on George Armelago study, what happened to life expectancy after the adoption of farming?______________________________________________________________________________1016000253365Average Work Week in HoursKalahari Bushman = 15 hoursHadza nomads of Tanzania = 14 hoursU.S. Farmer = 50 hours00Average Work Week in HoursKalahari Bushman = 15 hoursHadza nomads of Tanzania = 14 hoursU.S. Farmer = 50 hoursDocument 8*Note no question for this document.Name: ___________________________________________________________Period: ______________Directions: Using the attached documents, create a thesis with supporting evidence using the following questions as a guideline: Would humans be better off had they never adopted agriculture? Did the Neolithic Revolution have an overall positive or negative impact on humanity?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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