agriculture - the work of farming

civilization - the kind of society with developed organisation. (In British English usually written with S - Civilisation)


The Neolithic Revolution is a period which is also sometimes called the "agricultural revolution". You can see the map of where this happened first:

the fertile crescent

Çatal Höyük is in the North East of this area.

People started to live in a permanent place and to organise their work. This led to political hierarchies and specialization of labour, and eventually to the kind of culture which we call civilisation.


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