Happy Thursday! Our Core Concentration blog prompt for today is to put ourselves in the shoes of someone from a long time ago, a nomadic hunter-gatherer. We're to imagine that we're the leader of a tribe of them and we've just discovered new land. Do we settle there or keep moving? Explain why we chose what we did.
If I was in the same situation, I wouldn't choose one option. As the leader of the tribe of hunter-gatherers, I had control and authority over the others in my group, and I would do what was the best for all of them, and mix both of the options. I would have some of us settle and see if we can use anything to farm or build our living and have others venture out still and try to find new lands. In addition, I'd also call back certain or all members of the tribe who were still moving back if what I found in the new land was fortunate, plenty, or fertile. If I was the leader of a hunter-gatherer tribe, I'd want my group and its settlements to be large and plentiful for the benefit of the group I was leading.
I chose this answer mostly because of what I mentioned above. If I wanted to make a memorable settlement and civilization, I'd spread it out and make it large. This would give the people I led a better chance at finding a larger variety of food and more environments as well as a sense of pride in their land and people. This is how the people we're currently studying, the first people in the Americas, came to create their settlements and civilizations. Once the emphasis on hunting and finding bare needs could be set aside, other things came into play. In fact, this is how most early human civilizations, even great ones that eventually became empires, were first formed.
If I was in the same situation, I wouldn't choose one option. As the leader of the tribe of hunter-gatherers, I had control and authority over the others in my group, and I would do what was the best for all of them, and mix both of the options. I would have some of us settle and see if we can use anything to farm or build our living and have others venture out still and try to find new lands. In addition, I'd also call back certain or all members of the tribe who were still moving back if what I found in the new land was fortunate, plenty, or fertile. If I was the leader of a hunter-gatherer tribe, I'd want my group and its settlements to be large and plentiful for the benefit of the group I was leading.
I chose this answer mostly because of what I mentioned above. If I wanted to make a memorable settlement and civilization, I'd spread it out and make it large. This would give the people I led a better chance at finding a larger variety of food and more environments as well as a sense of pride in their land and people. This is how the people we're currently studying, the first people in the Americas, came to create their settlements and civilizations. Once the emphasis on hunting and finding bare needs could be set aside, other things came into play. In fact, this is how most early human civilizations, even great ones that eventually became empires, were first formed.
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