What kinds of homes did people have in the past?

Answer 1

Homes would vary by date, country, region, climate, type of community, etc. Generally speaking, homes in the past and present could be:

1. rock outcroppings
2. groves of trees
3. caves
4. lean-tos
5. dugouts - one to 3 sides cut from the land, with a depression of ground as the floor
6. hovels
7. tepees (Native American Indians)
8. huts - by various names depending on the country
9. castles
10. one room cabin; hunting cabins (colonial USA; present-day trappers and hunters)
11. 1 & 1/2 story house (1800s to 1900s USA)
12. coal patch - coal company small housing (1800s-present day)
13. mansions and estates with numerous outbuildings
14. Victorian architecture homes (especially 1880 USA)
15. various types of houses, including living in "a cement foundation only, e.g. cellar" (to present)
16. cottages (to present)
17. Boarding houses (1900s USA)
18. Institutions (late 1800s to 1900s)
19. Victorian architecture homes made into rooms or apartments (1900s to present)
    
20. tents (nomads; migrants; refugees)
    
21. trailers; Mobile Homes (1970s to present USA)

Answer 2

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