This document discusses the origins and development of early human societies. It describes how early humans lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes and followed food sources. Over time, humans developed new skills like controlling fire, tool-making, domesticating animals and plants, and developing agriculture. This Neolithic Revolution led to permanent settlements and the rise of urban civilizations as humans no longer had to follow food sources. The document provides examples of early weapons, tools, and settlements as humans transitioned to agricultural societies. It directs students to draw and paint a scene of daily life from their tribe as a classwork assignment.

1. Revolution!
Social Studies for 8th E.G.B.
Teacher: Mauricio Torres

2. What is a REVOLUTION?
 It is a big and drastic change.
 The reasons are many, but the ones we need to focus the
most are:
 Cultural invention and interaction.
 Science and technology.
 Economic opportunity and development.
 Geography and environment.

3. Hunter-gatherer societies
 Earlier humans lived in
small groups, which today
we call tribes. They were
nomads, which meant that
they followed food
sources, and didn´t settle
permanently in one
particular spot.

4. Hunter-gatherer societies
 This food sources, needed
to survive were usually wild
plants, seeds, fruits and
nuts. They would also hunt
large prey in groups.
Early weapons used for hunting

5. A leap forward
 Little by little, humans started to develop new and more
complex skills, such as language.

6. A leap forward
 These new set of skills were:
 Creating fire (before they controlled it, not created it).
 Polishing stones to make more complex tools such as saws (until
they started using metal to create tools).
 Domestication: changing animals and plants to make them
more useful for humans.
 Agriculture: Producing their own food.
 The development of agriculture would lead the way forward
into a new way of life, and change humanity forever.

7. A leap forward
 All of these happened in Southwest Asia, and gave rise to the
Neo-lithic era.

8. Urban settlements
 With new sets of skills, they
began to raise crops. Now
they didn´t need to follow
their food source and began
settling areas and building
cities.
 In this manner, survival was
more certain and humans
could now focus on other
persuits; not just gathering
food needed to survive.

9. Urban settlements
 In cities, populations grew
in ways never seen before.
 Religion developed too, and
the most important spots
on cities usually were
religious sites. In some
places, they were so huge
we call them MEGALITHS.

10. Neolithic Revolution
 The shift from food-gathering to food producing.

11. CLASSWORK
 Draw on a piece of paper, a
draft from a scene from
what your tribe´s daily life
was like. Take the paper
home and paint your
drawing, in a neat manner.
 Don´t forget to put your artists
signature in it!

12. Bibliography
 Burstein, S. M., & Shek, R. (2012). World History (Teacher´s
Edition) (1st Edition ed.). (H. McDougal, Ed.)
Orlando, Florida, US.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
Company.
 Images: Taken from Google.