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In this period, the Hominids begin to transition from hunter\gatherers to agriculture. They start to build permanent settlements and begin communities.
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The Hominids begin to create pots to store their foods so they can eat it later. This helps develop community's by allowing them to store food for other times such as winter.
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People start to raise animals for food sources. They start with sheep and goats and things like that then start to move to animals such as pigs.
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People learn how to grow flax and how to turn that flax into fabric that is used for clothing and helps keep them warm.
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Humans near the yellow river start to develop farming communities. They start planting beans and plants like that such as cucumbers. They also domesticate pigs.
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The plow helps humans clear land for farming much faster than a stick. They then find out how to use animals to pull it instead of themselvs.
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At this time, Humans in the Middle East started to use bronze tools instead of stone tools. This ended the Neolithic Era but the Neolithic Era will always be remembered as the first stepping stone to becoming what we are today and our transition from hunter/gatherers to farmers.
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Central American humans started to adopt agriculture and store their food in clay pots and jars.