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Types of Societies

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Societies are classified by how they secure subsistence, because the method of getting food shapes settlement, population, hierarchy, and nearly everything else.

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A society that follows herds cannot build permanent granaries; one that farms fixed fields must.

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The sequence is a classification, not a ladder every society climbs.