People at this stage continued to progress and survive due to activities such as gathering and hunting. Now the Stone Age period can be divided into pre-Stone Age, middle Stone Age and modern Stone Age. Now each period showed developments in some or the other way. Initially, fire was invented and the invention was quite phenomenal. Even today most explorers prefer to use stones to lit fire. The same fire was then used to sharpen instruments and objects. These inventions or so called developments are still the same. Maybe the instruments might be different. Next, man tried to make instruments mainly weapons for his everyday purpose. Weapons included axes, spears, scrapers, awls, knives and hand axes mainly made of stone. These weapons were enough to protect themselves from wild animals and enemies. The other purposes of these weapons were for hunting, fishing and butchering purposes.
2. Peacekeeping today implicates the stationing of troops in order to separate oposing parties as a first stage in the peacefull search of a common solution suitable for both parties.
The Vienna Congress in fact was a convent that was aimed at redesigning the map of Europe, goal was to restore France in it's limits of 1789 and redistribute the territorial gains of the French Empire to those countries they had been taken from.
Certain countries to close to Napoleonic ideas and way of life were simply ignored or overruled and smaler ones simply integrated to larger ones. Belgium for example was used as buffer zone between the Netherlands and France as a protection from any eventual attack coming from France in the Future. Thiscountry was an artificial creation of the Vienna Congress, it was annexed to the Empire of the House of Orange as a southern province before a revolution in 1830 split them from the Netherlands into independancy.
These countries were partly occupied by massive troops formations in order to fight any trial of opposing the new established government. There was no search of a peacefull solution, but an imposed one!
The Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment provision in the US Constitution was originally found in the English Bill of Rights.
I think one negative consequence was that a lot of people were out of work and they were homeless