Monday, September 3, 2018

"Neolithic"

The Neolithic era is where new plants were blooming and the meddling and breeding of certain animals. I find this interesting because we see these effects today. We see chickens and cows being farmed for the sole purpose of feeding us unhealthy food. The difference between wild and man raised  animals as that they produce more of what they can be used for. Cows produce more milk, sheep produce more wool, and chickens laid more eggs. We could possibly see this also with dogs. Just like we are similar  to apes, dogs are similar to wolves.  This process is known as domestication.  An issue with domestication is that humans, animals and plants alike get dependent in certain aspects. Plants and animals maintained by humans won't be able to survive like its wild counterpart. Humans are dependent of plants and animals to eat. We evolved from these ancestral creatures to what we are today. Furthermore, Global Warming was an asset in the past compared to today. Today global warming is seen as an eventual mankind killer. In the Agricultural Revolution global warming was useful for the creation of new plant specious and "resource-rich areas." Just as there were flourishing communities, animals and plants were also becoming extinct. These extinctions are the same as present time because this was a natural warming. Today were seeing the extinction of plants and animals, dryer land due to man made pollution. Who knew that  disaster today would be a beneficial factor back then. In the Neolithic Times there existed a concept known as chiefdom. This is basically a government structure to maintain order. Unlike today, leaders of these societies didn't punish people to sustain obedience, they used generosity to keep their followers happy. This Neolithic and agricultural time brought upon the idea of tampering with animals, plants and other humans as well. This era was the birth societies that implemented rules maintain order. 

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