<h1>The Neolithic Revolution (or First Agricultural Revolution) brought about an ww ou</h1><p>acceleration of technological innovation, and a consequent increase in social P</p><p><br></p><p><em>complexity. 27] The invention of the polished stone axe was a major advance A</em><strong><span class="ql-cursor">﻿</span></strong><em> (] jeg</em></p><p><br></p><p>that allowed large-scale forest clearance and farming [28] This use of polished 3</p><p>stone axes increased greatly in the Neolithic but was originally used in the A HE 0</p><p><br></p><p>preceding Mesolithic in some areas such as Ireland [2%] Agriculture fed larger rig</p><p><br></p><p>populations, and the transition to sedentism allowed for the simultaneous raising an array of Neolitc artifacts,</p><p>of more children, as infants no longer needed to be carried around by nomads. including bracelets, axe heads,</p><p>Additionally, children could contribute labor to the raising of crops more readily chisels, and polishing tools</p><p><br></p><p>than they could participate in hunter-gatherer activities [32131]</p><p><br></p><p>With this increase in population and availability of labor came an increase in labor specialization [32 What triggered</p><p>the progression from early Neolithic villages to the first cities, such as Uruk, and the first civilizations, such as</p><p>Sumer, is not specifically known; however, the emergence of increasingly hierarchical social structures and</p><p>specialized labor, of trade and war among adjacent cultures, and the need for collective action to overcome</p><p>environmental challenges such as irrigation, are all thought to have played a role [33]</p><p><br></p><p>The invention of writing led to the spread of cultural knowledge and became the basis for history, libraries, schools,</p><p>Sind arianiifis nscaseya [3</p>