Answer: During the Neolithic Age, people settled in villages where they built permanent homes. They located villages near fields so people could plant, grow, and harvest their crops more easily. People also settled near water sources, especially rivers. During medieval times, men, especially outlaws, would keep warm in the winter by wearing a linen shirt with underclothes, mittens made of wool or leather and woolen coats with a hood over a tight cap called a coif.
Although all earlier hominins are now extinct, many of their adaptations for survival—an appetite for a varied diet, making tools to gather food, caring for each other, and using fire for heat and cooking—make up the foundation of our modern survival mechanisms and are among the defining characteristics of human life.
Many settlements and farms were built near the rivers and tributaries. This would allow them to use the waterways like highways. In areas that were large enough, some would create plantations. The prairies would be turned into rice patties. Most people would live in the cities like New Orleans or Lafayette.
It was primarily the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" that gave President Johnson the authority to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam, since this was basically a report that two US ships has sustained enemy fire in the region.
