What influence did the Neolithic Revolution have upon the development of world civilization? What caused the primary changes between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages? What is the nature of the evidence we have for these changes?
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Beginning in 10,000 B.C.E., there was a shift from a hunter-gatherer way of life to one marked by settled agriculture and the domestication of animals—a shift known as the Neolithic Revolution. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C.E., civilization began to appear in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in Mesopotamia, then along the Nile River in Egypt, and somewhat later in the Indus valley in India and the Yellow River basin in China. Each of these early civilizations developed urban centers, monumental architecture, a hierarchical society, and a system of writing. Answers should also information about the evidence of the changes discussed.
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All of the following were causes of western commercial expansion during the High medieval period except the
A) eastern expansion due to German colonization near the Baltic. B) eastern expansion by crusaders over two centuries. C) seizure of Muslim Egypt from Saladin. D) creation of the hansa. E) seizure of Constantinople and lucrative Black Sea trade.