Living in a land where food is scarce, and the only thought on your mind is how you will find food and water for the day. A land where it’s eat or be eaten. People who did not live in Agricultural societies have been through this, and people are still going through this today. More commonly around the 1500’s Native Americans gathered food in any way possible. This included hunting, fishing, and gathering roots with other edible plants. In agricultural societies where food wasn’t scarce people generally thought about money, and shelter. People had plentiful food, and some people didn’t need to hunt, or gather food. In fact if they had enough money all they needed to do was pay for it. However this may not have been as comfortable as it seemed. People became dependent on their profitable lands, and when fields and crops did not produce enough product chaos would be abrupt, and people would starve. And as people grew greedy for money, chaos was caused. And power was thrown around to whoever had the most money. And people who didn’t have much money were looked down on and frowned upon. My Kahiau topic is Poverty. The idea of traditional foraging/hunter-gathering and modern Agricultural societies have major impacts on my Kahiau topic. For one, the two titles in general almost represent the people of the higher and lower class in general. People from Agricultural societies looked down on people who didn't’ come from lands where food could be bought. Foraging and hunter-gatherers also had a higher and lower class, but this was usually determined by physical features, like how big and old you were, the amount of anything you had didn’t really matter. Unlike how the Agricultural societies operated. The more money you had, the more power and advantage you had over anyone else in society. The general fact is that poverty revolves around the classes of society. The lower your class is the more likely to be part of the poverty class. This includes not being able to afford things, or have enough of what you need to survive (food, water, shelter, etc.).
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Jazlyn FariasI'm a freshmen at Kamehameha Schools. I am passionate about the effort I put into my work. Archives
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