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| Hunting and Gathering (foraging) |
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| Adaptation based on harvesting only wild (undomesticated) plants and animals |
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| agriculture (cultivation) |
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| Adaptation based primarily on planting, tending, and harvesting of domesticated plants (crops) |
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| adaptation based on the control and breeding of domesticated livestock, which are taken to naturally occurring pastureland |
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| the productive technology that harnesses the energy of fossil fuels to satisfy human material needs and wants |
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| a small foraging group with flexible composition that migrates seasonally |
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| the process by which people control the distribution, abundance, and biological features of certain plants and animals in order to increase their usefulness to humans |
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| a method of cultivation in which hand tools powered by human muscles are used |
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| a system of cultivation in which plots are planted annually or semiannually; usually uses irrigation, natural fertilizers, and plows powered by animals |
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| food or other goods by a worker in excess of the amount needed for his or her own consumption as well as the needs of his or her dependents |
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| a form of complex society in which many people live in cities |
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| rural people who are integrates into a larger society politically and economically |
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| a form of seasonal mobility, usually referring to pastoral peoples who move their livestock herds to locations with lush pastureland |
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| the widespread pastoral pattern of migrating to different elevations in response to seasonal differences in temperature and pastureland |
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| globalization of production |
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| the process in which companies located in one country relocate their production facilities to other countries to reduce costs and be more competitive |
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