Papua New Guinea has been along a lot longer than the United States. They never developed as fast as the US did either. So what they did before they started to develop a civilization is hunting and gathering. Once they started to develop they started to farm. Hunting and gathering was an inconvenient was to develop because it would take up all their time and people just so they could figure out what they were going to eat. Once they go to farming they started developing faster because they did not have to spend all their time doing one thing and they could go off and do other things to help develop a civilization. It was the first step to a new life.
Hunting was how they got their meat while gathering was how they got fruit. Hunting was done by men. They would go out everyday for every meal just to figure out what to eat. Gathering was the womens job. They went out and picked fruit and made things out of it. They cut down trees just to get stuff from it to make to eat. They all found this very inconvenient. They then started to realize that the land was very fertile. They used seeds from plants to make crops. Someone would take care of them everyday by watering them and making sure they stayed alive. This is how it all started.
Soon they were farming all the time. It made it easier to live when they didn't have to think about what they were going to eat everyday. They farmed many things like wheat, barley, and other grains. With this they could make other things. Domesticated animals would help pull a plow and help farm. This was a very good way to make use of the animals. This was a lot more healthy than the things they were eating before. Soon they were even making things to hold the grains and food they were making. They would put it in a granary to make sure that it would not get wet or go bad. This was the jump start to a new civilization.
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