Digital Scrapbook Entry#1 — Hunters and Gathers

 Period 7 World History 1
 9/18/14
Agnes
                               
                                        Hunters and Gathers Population 
                                        Compares with Modern Times Population

Link of the article about the Hunters and Gathers Population:
http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/population/pophistorymodule/history-2.htm

Link of the article about the Modern Times Population (Population Control in China):
http://countrystudies.us/china/34.htm


  Those are the two articles that I read for comparing the population from the Era of Foragers and Modern Times,  in some ways, they have connections, and I'll give the example of population control in China that relates to the ancient time.

                         ［The Era of foraging, people were trying to live in small groups and they were nomads.］

  In the Era of Foragers, people were always hunting and gathering, thus they also called ''Hunter-Gatherers'', they were nomads, they didn't live at the same places for a long time, the Hunter-Gatherers were always moving to other places.

[They were trying to live in small groups so there shouldn't be too many children]

  By reading the first article I've learnt that because of their life way (nomad) , they prefered to not to have so many children, in this society, women allowed to carry one child. But it's good to had only one kid at that time because in that society, they were trying to have small groups, if there's too many children that wouldn't satisfy the groups.

  Let's talk about the population in China,  people there are trying to control the population, in China, every family can only have one child, if there's another child, you should pay for it, also, you may lose your job, too.

                                         (This picture shows that every family can only have one child)

  What's the bad things about the population control? People in China will face problems like this:
—Old people are alone. There's even problem like their daughters or sons have arguments with them.
—The Aging of Population.
—Many places in China start to have problems that lack of offspring (daughters and sons)
—The amount of males and females are not equal.
—The quality needs to be improved.
—The decreasing of the quality of population.

  Through the 2 articles, we can know that small groups in the Era of Foragers, the population kept in a small scope, and the population was really stable and nice. But nowadays in Modern Times, such as in China, to have the control of population actually has a lot of problems that never happened in the foraging time. And we can see the relations between these two times, also, we can see how different they are.