Chapter Two Continuation: Social Variation in the Age of Agriculture

In this section I learned how the societies worked. There were different societies. The societies that they had were the pastoral societies and the agricultural village societies. Something that I learned from the pastoral societies was that animals had an important roll with them. The animals provided meat, pulling power, transportation and manure. Another thing that I learned and that got my attention from this reading was that animal husbandly also made a possible pastoral societies which were largely dependent on their domesticated animals. Something that I learned from the agricultural village societies was that their societies retained much of the equality and freedom of gathering and hunting communities, as they continue to do without kings, chiefs, bureaucrats, or aristocracies. That got my attention because it made it different from the pastoral societies. It gave me better meaning on how to set them apart.