Part 1: Discuss and compare the costs and benefits of the two different subsistence patterns of hunter gatherers and agriculture, addressing the following questions in full:
1. Identify the benefits of both subsistence patterns.
With both patterns you would be able to way the freshest food possible
2. Identify the costs (or disadvantages) of both subsistence patterns.
With both patterns the amount of knowledge in the suspect of understanding how much food is needed at a particular time changes.
3. Which subsistence pattern provides a healthier diet?
I believe the hunter-gethers have healthier diet
4. Discuss why you think some human populations made the transition into agriculture?
I think some of the transitions into agriculture could have came from the desire to do what is best for some of the members of the group, Their might have been a good amount of older people and pregnant women that were traveling from place to place that could not take the unsettled activity.
Part 2: Economics and Trade:
1. There is a direct relationship between the availability of surplus and the ability to trade. Explain the meaning of this statement.
I think this quote is talking about there being a strong correlation between the excess amount of a product and because of that excess a person a trade it (the excess) very easily because it is not needed to eat/survive with.
2. Identify and describe 2 social benefits of trade.
- I builds a strong community: people intreat with other people day in and day out and they grow in friendship and can increase the quality of life that the person has.
-It teaches people about responsibility: With trading a certain level of responsibility arises from everything that is in involved with having a product. There are people that are needed for every aspect of the trading process from picking or gathering the product, cooking it if necessary, packaging it, and selling it. It teaches people to work in a different kind of way.
3. Identify and describe 2 negative social results of the development of trade.
- People can start to get greedy: With trading, people in the same arena could be in competition with each other and one company can take things to a limit that it shouldn't really go to for the sake of just making another dollar.
- Corrupt politics can start to take over the trading system: People can start to mobilize with criminal groups when their needs aren't met in the way they want them to be.
4. Given your answer in the question #1, explain the relationship between the elopement of agriculture and the development of trade.
These two different aspects come tougher when survival opportunities arise and the human naturally looks at his/her resources to take care of his.her family (or themselves) at that moment in time.
Your section on trade was good, particularly your clarification on the costs and benefits of trade to a culture. The final question asked for a general explanation of the relationship between agriculture and trade. I don't understand how your answer addresses this.
ReplyDeleteThe first section was a little short on information. What were the specific benefits and costs (downsides) of each type of subsistence methods (separately)? And why do you think hunter-gatherer's diets were healthier?
Great post! I like your idea about trading that it builds a strong community and teaches responsibility. Other than culture exchange in trading it also build a strong community and sense of responsibility which is also an advantage in social development in trading.
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