The Stone Age Transforming

The Stone Age was around 9,ooo BC and around this time permanent settlers started to emerge. As this happened many other things changed which would make for a different future. Agricultural surplus and social organizations occured, things that make cities unique today.The Stone age/Neolithic period eventually turned into the Agricultural Revolution where warming took place and the ice age died off. As this occured so did favorable conditions for farming. Great innovations were created such as the stone axe, bow and arrow, and many metal tools. All of these gave humans huge advantages when dealing with agriculture.The next step was the Urban Revolution. This created larger settlements for people that were permanent. These settlement had up to 50,000 people living there. In this time period specialists started to form. These people would specialize in one task and be a professional at it. This made things more efficient for everyone and everything. Ruling classes also emerged and they were to keep eveything organized and to accumulate capital. Also at this time, writing had emerged in cities. Writing was a huge impact because it was used for recording taxations and just simply communicating and getting informatio out to the people that lived in the cities. Another big deal in this time was trade which enabled cities to get what they needed by doing trade.This time period just simply capped a huge turning point in the evolution of cities, and this time period is what made cities so special and unique. Cities are so neat because over time you can actually see time. It is more so with the European cities such as Italy and France where most of the city shows its history and background. http://www.frommers.com/destinations/slideshow.cfm?destID=228From this link above you will be able to see Italy and the art and historical architecture in all the famous cities.