The Neolithic Revolution is defined as which development?

• A. The invention of writing.
• B. The formation of city-states.
• C. The domestication of plants and animals.
• D. The creation of metallurgy.

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is the shift from hunting and gathering to farming made possible by domesticating plants and animals. When people began cultivating crops and tending tame animals, they could settle in one place, store extra food, and support larger populations. This surplus also allows people to specialize in different crafts, leading to villages and eventually early civilizations.

Writing, city-states, and metalworking come later in human history. Writing develops for recording information in literate societies, city-states arise as organized political units within farming communities, and metallurgy (working with metals) appears after farming is established. So the domestication of plants and animals is the defining development.