So why don't we start with what it is. The Neolithic revolution isn't a revolution in the ordinary sense of the word that you might understand it. You might think revolution, bloody coup, people uprising, big changes quickly. The Neolithic revolution is literally going to be a revolution that occurs over thousands of years and it's hard to pinpoint one specific event or one specific place because it's really a multiple of changes over a multiple of regions. Whether it's going to be Syria where we're going to have the first real examples of the domestication of animals to China where we have one of the earliest examples of really a staple crop being planted and being relied on. But either way the answer on the exam is going to be that the Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age which is about two or three million BCE to about 10,000 BCE is characterized by hunting and gathering. It's the caveman thing.