BLOG #14: CHAPTER 11 - PASTORAL PEOPLES ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

This Chapter was interesting, I found it actually a little different than most of our readings. I learned that the "revolution of domesication" began around 11,500 years ago and I also learned that this involved both plants and animals. I learned that here people began to combine farming with animal husbandry and here powerful and impressive civilizations developed on this foundation with great populations. I also learned that Pastoral societies had less productive economies and they supported smaller populations. Here people lived in small scattered encampments compared to villages, towns, and cities. They organized themselves in kinship-based groups where they claimed a common ancestry. This is similar to back home because we seperate different areas of our island into villages and we too gather with our related clans or families that also absorb unrelated people into the community.