Question

List the ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that hunter gatherers.​

Answer 1

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Three points of difference between the lives of farmers/ herders from hunter-gatherers.

(a) Hunter-gatherers kept travelling from place to place whereas farmers had to live at same place for longer periods of time to take care of their crops.

(b) Hunter-gatherers depended on meat of wild animals whereas farmers and herders used plants, crops and cattle.

(c) Hunter-gatherers did not have any settled life whereas farmers and herders gradually settled in huts, pit-houses, etc.

Answer 2

1. Farmers and herders would stay in one location; whereas hunter-gatherers would have to move from place to place, following the movement of animals.

2. Farmers and herders would stay in huts or houses, whereas hunter-gatherers would stay in caves.

3. For farmers and herders, the food source would be crops and domesticated animals like sheep, goat; whereas hunters would rely on wild animals as a source of food.