Title: Turning Points in History Essay - 309 Words
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Turning Points in History
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Content: 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 The historical content that has been studied thus far is very important to us as homo sapien sapiens.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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Essay on History Turning Points
... Turning points in world history : Agricultural revolution  (ca. 8000-5000 B.C.) Time period when humans first domesticated plants and animals Allowed people to switch from hunting and gathering to farming and herding  Origin of civilizations  (ca.