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Disadvantages Of Human Migration

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“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call,” (Grahame, 103). Humans have been migrating from place to place for a long time. Human migration is when one moves from one place to another in order to gain benefit. Most of the time, in history, migrants were seeking opportunity. They wanted to have access to new and better things such as land, food, and water. Sometimes, they just wanted a safe place because of war surrounding them. Throughout the history of human migration, difficulties of migrants have been recorded. The first human migrants traveled by foot, which adds multiple factors or dilemmas in order to do so. Many migrants circumvented past these barriers, but some struggled to or did not at all. Furthermore, migrants went through situations where food and clothes were limited, scarce, and the temperature was not on their side. They needed specific strategies and tactics to get past these complications for survival. It was a gamble between life and death. To begin with, deficiency of food was one of the biggest issues when these migrants would depart on their long journeys. Neanderthals had a huge disadvantage compared to modern humans because their bodies demanded more food. They used similar techniques as modern humans in the sense of hunting. They would also kill deer, cattle, and bison, but with varied tools. Yes, both modern humans

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