Foraging Societies
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Prompt 1:
Foraging Societies
Foraging societies consisted of people who had no consistently controlled food source. Back in those days, the people depended on nature to provide food. During that time hunting and gathering was the only way to acquire food. Due to the lack of an efficient system of obtaining food, foraging societies were very small. With the people always on the move, they did not create a permanent dwelling and had very few personal possessions.
The Discovery of Agriculture The Neolithic revolution was a period of time in which man learned how to grow food from seeds. The word revolution in this case refers to a change of human society that occurred over thousands of years. During this time Agriculture was also discovered independently by societies in the Americas. The discovery and practice of agriculture produced a great excess of food. This method had profound social and economic results. These societies both had advantages and disadvantages. Foraging and urbanized societies both relied on the weather to obtain food. However, in an urbanized society they would often have a surplus of food. In this case urbanized societies did not rely on the weather as much as foraging societies. In a foraging society the people had to hunt and gather their own food. One location could not keep their society alive for a lifetime. This meant that they had to constantly relocate themselves from place to place. This also meant that the people of foraging societies had very few personal possessions. In urbanized societies the practice of agriculture required the people to stay in one place. They built homes that were meant to be lived in for a long time. Since food production was inevitably tied to land, the people eventually developed private possessions. The discovery and practice of agriculture also led to the concept of gender inequality. Overtime, land grew to be the basis of wealth and since men mostly worked the land, men
Prompt 1:
Foraging Societies
Foraging societies consisted of people who had no consistently controlled food source. Back in those days, the people depended on nature to provide food. During that time hunting and gathering was the only way to acquire food. Due to the lack of an efficient system of obtaining food, foraging societies were very small. With the people always on the move, they did not create a permanent dwelling and had very few personal possessions.
The Discovery of Agriculture The Neolithic revolution was a period of time in which man learned how to grow food from seeds. The word revolution in this case refers to a change of human society that occurred over thousands of years. During this time Agriculture was also discovered independently by societies in the Americas. The discovery and practice of agriculture produced a great excess of food. This method had profound social and economic results. These societies both had advantages and disadvantages. Foraging and urbanized societies both relied on the weather to obtain food. However, in an urbanized society they would often have a surplus of food. In this case urbanized societies did not rely on the weather as much as foraging societies. In a foraging society the people had to hunt and gather their own food. One location could not keep their society alive for a lifetime. This meant that they had to constantly relocate themselves from place to place. This also meant that the people of foraging societies had very few personal possessions. In urbanized societies the practice of agriculture required the people to stay in one place. They built homes that were meant to be lived in for a long time. Since food production was inevitably tied to land, the people eventually developed private possessions. The discovery and practice of agriculture also led to the concept of gender inequality. Overtime, land grew to be the basis of wealth and since men mostly worked the land, men