REVOLUTION RESEARCH

Hunter/gatherers

• All hunter-gatherer groups ever studied are meat eaters (including fish, insects, and other animal flesh). Some, particularly in warmer climates, get most of their calories from plant matter, but they still eat meat.
• Because their needs were so small, they needed to work far less than we do today, and had more leisure time.

TIME FRAZE

• The hunter gatherers lived in small groups, normally about ten or twelve female adults plus children. They were regularly on the move, searching for nuts, berries and other plants, and following the wild animals which the males hunted for meat.

WHAT HAPPEN AT THIS TIME?

• Each group had a large territory over which it roamed large, but only a small proportion of the plants in any given environment were suitable for people to eat.

PROS

• Food is often fresher since they wouldn't tend to have a large harvest.
• They didn't have to worry about all the problems with growing crops like weather, floods or pests that would destroy the crops.

CONS

• They can't generally gather as much food as farmers can grow.
• 2. Populations are smaller so they can't protect themselves against farmers or their societies.

IMPACT ON THE POPULATION

AGRICULTURAL

• Started in Great Britain in the early 18th century and spread throughout Europe and America by the 19th century. This was a period of significant agricultural development marked by new farming techniques and inventions that led to a massive increase in food production.
• It brought about experimentation with new crops and new methods of crop rotation. These new farming techniques gave soil time to replenish nutrients leading to stronger crops and better agricultural output.

TIME FRAME

WHAT HAPPENED AT THIS TIME?

PROS

• (It gives farmers access to consistent income)- Not all farmers can say they make a good living out of producing food. With farming, you don’t get to see money each day either because the harvest takes too long on certain occasions.
• (It helps manage food supply)- Subsidies can be used by governments to ensure that a farm produces the right amount of crops or meat to serve the population.

CONS

• (It damage the environment)- A lot of the complaints against agricultural subsidies is that they’re detrimental to the environment
• (It involves government intervention)- Protesters of agricultural subsidies believe that governments just want to intervene in things they shouldn’t be a part of.

IMPACT ON THE POPULATION

• Days now you can walk into your local grocery store and fill your shopping cart with a variety of fresh produce. Then, with no more effort than it takes to push your cart, you can head to the cereal aisle to pick out your favorite boxes of breakfast cereal before ending your shopping trip in the bread aisle, where you grab a couple of loaves of bread for your lunchtime sandwiches.

INDUSTRIAL