For most of our history we supported ourselves by What was so hard about hunting and gathering? Why do hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and so many people today think that the lives of hunters and foraged for wild plants. It's a life that philosophers have gatherers were so difficult? Cite text-based evidence to traditionally regarded as nasty, brutish, and short. Since support your answer. no food is grown and little is stored, there is (in this view) no respite from the struggle that starts anew each day to find wild foods and avoid starving. Our escape from this misery was facilitated only 10,000 years ago, According to this paragraph, what human action set off when in different parts of the world people began to the agricultural revolution? domesticate plants and animals. The agricultural revolution spread until today it's nearly universal and few tribes of hunter-gatherers survive. Why did almost all our hunter-gatherer ancestors adopt How did the adoption of agriculture allow people to agriculture? Agriculture is an efficient way to get more “construct complex buildings and compose great food for less work. Planted crops yield far more tons per music”? acre than roots and berries…Since crops can be stored, and since it takes less time to pick food from a garden than to find it in the wild, agriculture gave us free time that hunter-gatherers never had. Thus it was agriculture that enabled us to construct complex buildings and compose [great music]. Are modern-day hunter-gatherers really worse off than Based on the rest of the paragraph, what is the answer farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen to the question that begins the paragraph? Explain. groups of so-called primitive people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"
For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants. It's a life that philosophers have traditionally regarded as nasty, brutish, and short. Since no food is grown and little is stored, there is (in this view) no respite from the struggle that starts anew each day to find wild foods and avoid starving. Our escape from this misery was facilitated only 10,000 years ago, when in different parts of the world people began to domesticate plants and animals. The agricultural revolution spread until today it's nearly universal and few tribes of hunter-gatherers survive. What was so hard about hunting and gathering? Why do so many people today think that the lives of hunters and gatherers were so difficult? Cite text-based evidence to support your answer. According to this paragraph, what human action set off the agricultural revolution? Why did almost all our hunter-gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture? Agriculture is an efficient way to get more food for less work. Planted crops yield far more tons per acre than roots and berries…Since crops can be stored, and since it takes less time to pick food from a garden than to find it in the wild, agriculture gave us free time that hunter-gatherers never had. Thus it was agriculture that enabled us to construct complex buildings and compose [great music]. How did the adoption of agriculture allow people to “construct complex buildings and compose great music”? Are modern-day hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so-called primitive people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?" Based on the rest of the paragraph, what is the answer to the question that begins the paragraph? Explain.
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