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The Neolithic Revolution starts to form where people shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to staying in one spot and farming.
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Advancements such as sickles, hammers and millstones are invented and new methods of storing food are put into use, further making the community grow.
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Animals are domesticated such as sheep at first and later pigs.
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The large arable land in the Indus Valley (located in modern day India) and is perfect for early food production.
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As farming expanded, the need for irrigation grew. People in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia and the Nile river in Egypt made early forms of irrigation because they couldn’t always rely on the river to flood and grow crops.
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The plow was invented to replace the sticks early humans used to dig up soil and plant seeds, later animals were used with it.
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Beer is brewed in Mesopotamia, where barley is an indigenous crop.
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The Neolithic Age starts to transition into the Copper Age as stone tools are being replaced with copper tools.
