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16 Cards in this Set
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subsistence strategy |
the way a society transforms environmental resources into food |
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population density |
# of people inhabiting a given area |
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productivity |
yield per person per unit of land |
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efficiency |
yield per person per hour of labor invested |
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foraging (hunting/gathering) |
a food-getting strategy that does not involve food production or domestication of animals and that involves no conscious effort to alter the environment |
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pastoralism |
a food-getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals |
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transhumant pastoralism |
a form of pastoralism in which herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available |
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nomadic pastoralism |
whole social group (men, women, children) and their animals move in search of pasture |
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horticulture |
production of plants using a simple, nonmechanized technology; fields are not used continuously |
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swidden (slash and burn) cultivation |
field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush. Typical of horticulture |
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agriculture |
same piece of land is permanently cultivated using plows, animals, and techniques of soil and water control |
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peasants |
rural cultivators who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger, complex state societies |
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industrialism |
a system of production dependent on investments in machinery, technology, communication, and information. Industrial agriculture is patterned after manufacturing |
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globalization |
the integration of resources, labor, and capital into a global network |
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The collection of natural occurring plants and animals is known as |
foraging |
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subsistence strategy known as __________________ where fields are perpetually planted using intensive technologies. |
agriculture |
