Question

Before contact with European societies, Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gathers. They traveled to the same water resources each year, and traveled along the same paths as their ancestors through the arid desert at other times. Many of their methods of making goods and acquiring resources were learned from their ancestors. What type of economy did the Aboriginal Australians have?

A.
a pure command economy

B.
a pure market economy

C.
a mixed economy

D.
a traditional economy

Answer 1

D. a traditional economy

Their subsistence, production methods, and resource allocation were based on customs, traditions, and ancestral practices rather than market prices or central planning.