HIST 150 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neolithic Revolution, Smallpox, Fertile Crescent
14 Sep 2016
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Civilization is based, not only on men, but on plants and animals. j. b. s. Haldene: men were not the only thing that contributed to civilization evolving, but the domestication of plants and animals helped the process also. Hunter gatherers- a mobile, traveling, hunting/gathering group for survival. For 99% of human history, people lived as hunter-gatherers; they lived in small, mobile bands or 20- 25 members and obtained subsistence through plants and animals: fruits, plants, bear, deer, etc, gender division: men & women perform many different tasks- women known to do more work than men. Men- hunt- usually stand and do nothing . Typically, the diet came from what the women gathered because men usually did not catch anything while hunting: egalitarian- classless; no political structure or hierarchy. Hunter-gatherers worked approximately 20-25 hours per week. Neolithic rev- taking previous knowledge of plants/animals and using it in a different.
