Title: Essay on Turning Points in History - 428 Words
Headings: Turning Points in History
Turning Points in History
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Content: Each continent, country, city, civilization, community as well as nationality has had a very large impact on the world while some are continuing to do so even today. Our world would not exist in the capacity that it does without these turning points in our world history. The historical content that has been studied thus far is very important to us as homo sapien sapiens. I will bring to light five of the positive turning points in history that have been studied thus far that still has a major impact on societies today: the Neolithic Revolution, the beginning of civilization, religion and government, trade and manufacturing and the invention of the wheel and its impact on trade. The Neolithic Revolution occurred after the last ice age around 10000 BCE (Duiker and Spielvogel 4). Neolithic is Greek for “new stone”. One of the most significant changes during the Neolithic Revolution was the “shift from hunting animals and gathering plants” to sustain their livelihood (Duiker and Spielvogel 5). They went from...
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Turning point in history Essay
...  Nearly twenty years after the revolutionary War began, the United States government faced a small-scale revolution by some of its own citizens. As in the previous war, taxes were a central issue.