They lived by hunting wild animals and collecting wild plants as well as fruits and vegetables... Occasionally they also fished.

Some human groups had a territory, others were nomads.

This growth generated the need to build houses. People built near the center and the fields. The town was the center of social life.

Some people specialized in doing other things such as construction or making clothes.

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Now that society had enough food supply with few workers and industrial production with few workers, more and more people started to dedicate to services (shops, restaurants, banking, holidays ...)

We say a society is “post-industrial” when there are more people working in services than in industry.

the start it was the farmers and artisans who traded, but soon the

“trader” appeared as a specialised profession.

Traders did their job locally but also “long-distance”. The best

known trader society were The Phoenicians.

In the industrial society most people work in factories. The job is repetitive, especially in the assembly lines.

We say a society is “industrial” when there are more people

working in industry than in farming.

telephone, internet, television... are the base for mass media communication.

People have information about what happens far from them, because they watch the news, or communicate with other individuals or read blogs.

The use of search engines on the Internet gives people easy access to the information they want.

There is a bit of all types of societies in the modern world.

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