Please respond to the question in complete sentences. Give details or examples to support your answer. Early settlers didn't have grocery stores and pizza delivery. Give at least two examples of how settlers used their environments to help them survive.
Some early settlers were hunter-gatherers and hunted for their food and cloth, others were agrarian and farmed their food. Often times, these two type of societies would collide and, with the edition of trade, they flourished.
The early settlers did not have many of the modern advantages that we have nowadays. However, even without these, they managed to have full, healthy lives. Some of the ways in which they used their environment to survive were:
Farming most of their food. Most settlers grew all the food they needed for their own subsistence. They also raised animals that gave them milk and meat.
Most settlers made their own clothes. These could be made of fabric, but often included pelts of animals that lived nearby.
Most settlers built their houses of the material that was available in the area. This was often wood, but sometimes could include other items, such as clay, mud or straw.
