Technological Advances Of The Stone Age
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Submitted by krisca on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Technological Advances Of The Stone Age
Stone Age
The Stone Age benefited, I believe, the most from the technological advancements. The Stone Age people learned to control fire and make weapons from stone, by chipping rocks into simple knives, spear tips, and arrowheads. With these better tools, hunting became much more successful and they were able to hunt much larger animals, such as mammoths and bison. Also, the Stone Age people developed a language, which allowed them to pass on important information. This also improved hunting.
Without these first tools, the people of later civilizations, even the people through the industrial revolution, would have never succeeded as well as they did. The Stone Age people created a language through pictograph, if they hadn't done so, the ice age people would never have written on the walls of the caves. This itself would have changed a lot. None of the civilizations would have ever have been able to advance into what they turned out to be. This would have even effected the people in the Renaissance, not having these first tools they'd never need a compass to hunt with, because the wouldn't need a compass to hunt with, because they would travel with their food and not need to return to one location.
The people of the Stone Age also had a very important agricultural revolution. They learned to farm and to domesticate animals. Religious beliefs started to change through this period. They no longer had to be nomads, and this allowed new forms of government to be developed. The agricultural revolution changed these people's way of life.
If the Stone Age people hadn't invented the first hand tools, the industrial revolution would have never happened. There would have been nothing for the new farm machines to replace and no factories would be built. This would lead to no increased food production and no population growth. Life could be so much different with just one small change.
All of this proved that the...
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