Factors Leading to the Emergence of Agricultural Societies
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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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Land</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

    What is the major basis for subsistence in horticultural societies?

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

    Why did horticultural societies need to be mobile?

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

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

    <p>Kinship</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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