The Neolithic Period

(The New Stone Age)

The Lascaux Cave

Development of Agriculture

Near East

• In the Neolithic Period people first developed farming, tamed animals, and establish villages.

• In the Near East were they began to gather seeds and farming as a way of life throughout Asia and much of Europe.

Catal Huyuk

Jericho

• The walled city of Jericho the earliest town and the Catal Huyuk which become the center for trade and home of Neolithic farmer villages.

JERICHO

CATAL HUYUK

Jericho

• The Barter is the kind of trade in which one good is exchanged for another.

• Artisans is a skilled person with specialized task.

Jericho

ARTISANS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE