Neolithic Revolution

(noun)

The Neolithic Revolution or Neolithic Demographic Transition, sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution, was the world's first historically verifiable revolution in agriculture.

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  • The Earliest Cities

    • The very first cities were founded in Mesopotamia after the Neolithic Revolution, around 7500 BCE.
    • The conventional view holds that cities first formed after the Neolithic Revolution, with the spread of agriculture.

  • Slavery

    • Due to these factors, the practice of slavery would have only proliferated after the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution about 11,000 years ago.
    • Although the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended shortly after the American Revolution, slavery remained a central economic institution in the southern states of the United States, from where slavery expanded with the westward movement of population.

  • Societal Development

    • Small scale agriculture also likely arose independently in early Neolithic contexts in India (rice) and Southeast Asia (taro).
    • When capitalised, The Industrial Revolution refers to the first known industrial revolution, which took place in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • What is some times referred to as The Second Industrial Revolution describes later, somewhat less dramatic changes resulting from the widespread availability of electric power and the internal-combustion engine.

  • Industrial Societies: The Birth of the Machine

    • During the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850) changes in technology had a profound effect on social and economic conditions.
    • Examples of the technological innovation of the Industrial Revolution include the invention of steam and coal engines.
    • The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.
    • Great Britain provided the legal and cultural foundations that enabled entrepreneurs to pioneer the Industrial Revolution.
    • Analyze the shift from manual to machine based labor during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions

  • Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey

    • The Kinsey Report helped spark the sexual revolution, in which social regulations regarding sexual activity were loosened.
    • While other sexualities were still stigmatized in most post-Kinsey environments, the sexual revolution was marked by popular acceptance of premarital sex.
    • Kinsey's 1950s study of sexuality contributed to the sexual revolution of the 1960s in two ways.
    • Another scientific product had a profound impact on the development of the sexual revolution: the development of oral contraception.
    • Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality

  • Monarchies and Liberal Democracies

    • Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d'état or wars.
    • The twentieth century saw a major escalation of this process, with many monarchies violently overthrown by revolution or war, or abolished as part of the process of decolonization.
    • Near the end of the 18th century, these ideas inspired the American and French Revolutions, the latter giving birth to the ideology of liberalism, and instituting forms of government that attempted to apply the principles of the Enlightenment philosophers into practice.
    • Reforms and revolutions helped move most European countries towards liberal democracy.

  • Capitalism, Modernization, and Industrialization

    • Sociologists Weber, Marx and Durkheim envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on both the individual and society.
    • Three early sociologists, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim, envisioned different outcomes of the Industrial Revolution on both the individual and society and described these effects in their work.
    • Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization of society due to the Industrial Revolution and how this change would affect humanity's agency and happiness.
    • Karl Marx took a different perspective on the Industrial Revolution.
    • Compare the similarities and differences between Weber's Rationalization, Marx's Alienation and Durkheim's Solidarity In relation to the Industrial Revolution

  • Democratic Socialism

    • Specifically, it is a term used to distinguish between socialists who favor a grassroots-level, spontaneous revolution (referred to as gradualism) from those socialists who favor Leninism (organized revolution instigated and directed by an overarching vanguard party that operates on the basis of democratic centralism).
    • Leninism is based on the philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, who advocated organized revolution led by a vanguard party.

  • Industrial Work

    • In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed labor practices.
    • Before the Industrial Revolution, most production took place in homes or in small workshops.
    • After the Industrial Revolution, production increasingly took place in factories, many of which were situated together in industrial districts.
    • Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on workers and the shift from small scale to large scale workforces

  • The Spread of Liberal Democracy

    • Near the end of the 18th century, these ideas inspired the American Revolution and the French Revolution, the pair of which gave birth to the ideology of liberalism and instituted forms of government that attempted to apply the principles of Enlightenment philosophy in practice.
    • Reforms and revolutions helped move most European countries towards liberal democracy.