Introduction to Revolutions

Unit 3Mr. Hardy

RMS IB 2014-2015

Define- Revolution

• A revolution is a sudden, extreme, or complete change in the way people live, work, etc.

• Revolutions are momentous *and have a huge impact on society.

• Types– Violent/ Non-Violent– Cultural/ Political/ Economic *very important : having great or lasting importance

Revolutions- Cultural

• A dramatic change in the way people live, interact with others, or see their society.

• Example- During the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, people discovered farming and transformed from a hunter-gatherer society to a farming society.

Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

• About 10,000 to 7,000 B.C.• A period of many new ideas and inventions• Most important change was in the way people

gathered food. • People changed from being hunter/gatherers

or nomads to being famers and herd keepers.• Nomads followed the seasonal movement of

animals to hunt and looked for wild fruits, berries, plants, nuts, and roots to eat.

Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

• Agriculture allowed people to produce surplus food.

• Surplus food, meant some people did not have to farm.

• These people became soldiers, traders, or specialized craftsmen.

• People made things that they needed like hoes, sickles, clay pots, millstones and cloth.

Revolutions- Political

• A dramatic change in the type, form, or use of government.

• Example- During the French Revolution, the people of France overthrew the monarchy and established a republic.– Very violent!

Revolutions- Economic

• A dramatic change in how people gain, receive, and distribute money.

• Example- During the Industrial Revolution, economies focused on factories, exporting, and hiring cheap labor.– New technology was developed– Women and child labor used– Company leaders became

“Kings of Commerce”

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Video Clip- Neolithic RevolutionTicket Out the Door!

• View the video clip then answer the following questions

1) What did the Agricultural Revolution do for people of this time?

2) Relationship with time- what does the narrator mean by this?

Show What You Know

• Providing of more food for families/ Domestication of animals/ Establishing homes/ no more hunter gatherers

• Learn about seasons, use of day light to farm, length of time to farm