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Chapter 7 Making a Living
Key Terms
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Subsistence strategiesThe ways in which societies transform the material resources of the environment into food, clothing, and shelter.
Population density Number of people inhabiting a given area of land.
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Foraging
The food-getting strategy of hunting and gathering societies.
SedentarySettled, living in one place.
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IndustrializationThe process of the mechanization of production.
Rain forestTropical woodland characterized by high rainfall and a dense canopy of broad-leaved evergreen trees.
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Pastoralism
A food-getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herds.
Horticulture (extensive cultivation) Production of plants using a simple, nonmechanized technology; fields are not used continuously.
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Agriculture
A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows, animals, and techniques of soil and water control.
Productivity Yield per person per unit of land.
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Efficiency
Yield per person per hour of labor invested.
Transhumance A pastoralist pattern in which herd animals are moved to different areas throughout the year as pasture be-comes available.
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Nomadism
The mobility of human groups in pursuit of food.
PatrilineageA lineage formed by descent in the male line.
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Swidden (slash and burn) A form of cultivation in which a field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush.
Peasants Food-producing populations that are incorporated politically, economically, and culturally into nation-states.
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BureaucracyCultivation oriented primarily toward the market.