SOCIOPOLITICAL

EVOLUTION OF MAN
Lesson 3
How do you imagine government
operations thousands of years ago?

Do you presume political

organizations to be as organized as
our government systems at
present?
 NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION
• era of a newfound lifestyle

Humans
Humans as started to NEOLITHIC
Nomadic
hunter domesticate
people REVOLUTIO
gatherers animals and N

crops
 IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION TO THE EVOLUTIONARY
PROCESS

Social Economic Human

Implications Implications Implications

 Permanent  Abundant supply  Increase in

settlements of food and human
 Urbanization resources population and
 Social  Selective life span
stratification breeding process  Different social
of crops and roles
animals
 EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF
THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION

 Morphological changes among Neolithic people, including

brain size and mandible, imply dietary changes from solely
eating plants to consumption of meat.

A subterranean structure in Syria was found to be built during

the Neolithic revolution and served as a communal storage
facility.
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS AND THE
RISE OF STATES EARLY
CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF
STATES
 RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

mainly
“IRAQ” Mesopotamia agrarian
societies

part of the
“cradle of Tigris and
Fertile
civilization” Euphrates
Crescent