Paleolithical Age

The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages are two very different ages. The main differences in these two ages are their climates. The climate in the Paleolithic Age was very cold causing thick sheets of ice, glaciers, to cover the land. Many of the people become nomads, people in search of food. In the Neolithic Age, people were able to stay in one place, start to farm and establish civilizations, because of warm weather. The different climate resulted to different lifestyles. These different lifestyles included religion, writing and system of government.

In the Paleolithic Age religion was very simple. The people believe that in after life. They felt that when a person died they should be buried with their most valuable possessions because they would need them in their after life. In the Neolithic Age they also believe in burying the dead. The differences between the two ages’ religions were th

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In the Paleolithic Age, writing did not really exist. Laws, to keep the civilization under control. A bureaucracy, was a system of government in which official were appointed to help managing, governing and keep order. For religions to have not just one type of religion, but also different types. On top of this rank appointing these jobs were priests and nobles. In all the different lifestyles also change as the population changes, making changes in religion, writing and system of government. Each person was equal and had the same goal, to survive, a rule set by Mother Nature. And last government to appoint more jobs and officials to prevent chaos. They believed in gods such as sun, river, and rain. Later writing became sounds, thoughts and ideas. Pictograms, symbols that represent words, were used to keep records, laws, and the land history. The warm weather caused a surplus of people, causing need of more, food, shelter and jobs. As the population gets larger, there is more diversity. In this age writing didn’t really exist because they were nomads.

In conculsion, the Paleolithic and Neolithic differ tremendously in a certain sense.

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