Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1116 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Clustered, Dispersed, Linear, Circular Villages
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The idea
Early villages needed water, defensibility, and land to cultivate. A clustered rural settlement has families living close together with fields around; a dispersed one has farmers on isolated individual farms. Dutch villages are linear along dikes; some African villages are circular, penning livestock at night.
In practice
The iraal: an enclosed village of huts.
Where people slip
A settlement pattern reveals culture and history.
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