Neolithic revolution ancient farmers

Neolithic Timeline

  • Ice Age
    8000 BCE

    Ice Age

    The ending of most recent ice age, making most animals extinct.
  • The First City
    8000 BCE

    The First City

    Jericho, often called the first city. Was founded in Modern-Day Israel
  • The Beginning of Pottery
    8000 BCE

    The Beginning of Pottery

    In the Near East baking of pottery was starting to be used
  • New Cultivation's
    7000 BCE

    New Cultivation's

    Evidence of wheat and barley in southern Europe, goats’ pigs and sheep’s were used for food found in Greece. Eggplant cultivations found in Pakistan
  • More Cultivations
    6800 BCE

    More Cultivations

    Rice cultivations were found in Southeast Asia. First signs of copper smelting were found at Anatolia
  • Breeding Animals
    4000 BCE

    Breeding Animals

    Oxen starting to be used for working in the Middle East and throughout Europe
  • MORE CULTIVATIONS!!!!!
    4000 BCE

    MORE CULTIVATIONS!!!!!

    Cultivation of crops, viz, cotton, dates were found in Mehrgarh. Men started using water buffalo. Egyptians started baking bread with yeast. Taiwanese people showed evidence of rice cultivations. Plows were used in Iraq, and there were also signs of the first use of wool for textiles.
  • New Agriculture
    3500 BCE

    New Agriculture

    Irrigation systems were used in Mesopotamia. First signs of agriculture found in America