Factors Leading to the Emergence of Agricultural Societies

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What was a dominant feature of human society in Aztec agricultural systems?

  • Nomadic lifestyle
  • Desert landscapes
  • Hunting grounds
  • Villages and cultivated fields (correct)

What led to the emergence of the first cities in Aztec agricultural systems?

  • Lack of resources
  • Increase in food supplies (correct)
  • Decrease in food production
  • Nomadic lifestyle

What did the production of food surpluses allow in agricultural societies?

  • Social differentiation and economic specialization (correct)
  • Equal distribution of resources
  • Decrease in human population
  • Increase in nomadic tribes

Why did women's social status decrease in agricultural societies according to the text?

<p>Farming required less cooperation and sharing than hunting and gathering (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the major source of wealth in agricultural societies according to the text?

<p>Land (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What led to conflicts with other communities as villages expanded into neighboring areas?

<p>Expansion of settlements (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the major basis for subsistence in horticultural societies?

<p>Cultivated plants (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did horticultural societies need to be mobile?

<p>To follow water supplies or resource-rich lands (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most important means of social organization in horticultural societies?

<p>Kinship (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did agricultural societies have a more stable food supply compared to horticultural societies?

<p>Better hunting and gathering technology (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What technological development enabled the shift from horticultural to agricultural societies?

<p>The invention of the wheel (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What conditions led to the shift from earlier societies to sedentary agriculture?

<p>Growing population needing more food, invention of the plow, and use of animal power (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following were the first domesticated plants in horticultural societies?

<p>Barley and wheat (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which event is often referred to as the 'agricultural revolution' by many historians?

<p>Invention of the plow about 6,000 years ago (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What technological advances did agricultural societies use to cultivate crops effectively?

<p>Combining irrigation techniques with the use of the plough (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which invention significantly increased the productivity and crop yield of agricultural societies?

<p>Invention of the calendar (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was NOT a condition that led to the shift from earlier societies to sedentary agriculture?

<p>Introduction of wind power for farming machinery (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which invention enabled both wagons and the manufacture of pottery in early agricultural societies?

<p>The wheel (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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