Topic: Discuss the significance of a food surplus.
Chasing the Food
What are the three basic necessities of life? Water, food and shelter. Remember back when you had to travel all over continents to find the yummy nutritious wheat? Just kidding, you don’t, you aren’t that old. A food surplus in a newly civilized area or when a civilization is being created is a big deal and holds great significance. So much can change or stay actually, due to the amount of food available.
Nomads would follow the food. Before there was ever such thing as a civilization or “building,” people would travel with the time of year, to wherever the greatest amount of food was. Other than the change in climate, the nomads would also have to build only temporary shelters. The people of this time were never able to rest because they were always doing something whether it was hunting, gathering or building. Geographically, some places were capable of doing more than others, but for the most part it was all the same.
When a surplus in food comes about to a civilization, you are able to change your way of life. You can build a more permanent shelter because you don’t have to keep walking to find the food anymore, and you don’t have to keep rebuilding shelters to live in while doing this. Finally, you can stay in one place for a while. This means that people can do separate jobs and eliminate the amount of time they have to work, and increase the amount of relaxation they have in a day. Food surplus was the beginning of advancing the world, because it gave people the time to create things such as clothing and many more ideas.
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