HELP!!! Why were permanent settlements more advanced than hunter-gatherer societies?

Improvements in farming were no longer necessary.
Hunter-gatherers did not trade with people in settlements.
People were able to specialize in activities other than farming.
Families had fewer children because there was less work to do.

the old way of life was represented by superstition, an angry god, and absolute submission to authority. the thinkers of the age of reason ushered in a new way of thinking. this new way championed the accomplishments of humankind. individuals did not have to accept despair. science and reason could bring happiness and progress. kings did not rule by divine right. they had an obligation to their subjects. europeans pondered the implications for nearly a century. americans put them into practice first.

the economic difference between the three colonial regions. shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and trapping where also main factors to the economy. the southern regional colonies economy was based on sugarcane, rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.

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