GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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What is the BEST explanation for why farming peoples like Egyptians and Sumerians, rather than hunter-gatherers, started the world’s first civilizations?
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Farmers were able to change their religion and by praying to the Gods they were able to accumulate more food.
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Hunter-gatherers were not able to communicate effectively with each other so they could not get food for themselves.
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Hunter-gatherers were not able to travel fast enough to find their food and they did not have any tools to help them.
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Farmers were able to accumulate surpluses to support large, permanent settlements and people who worked at non-farming jobs.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -People who produced their own food could have a steady supply of food year-round because the surplus food could be stored. This meant that they no longer had to travel from place to place. Having surplus food also allowed more people to be fed, so the population of the world began to grow rapidly.
Detailed explanation-2: -By actively managing their food supplies, agricultural societies were able to produce more food than hunter-foragers and support denser populations. Having a large population nearby made it worthwhile for farmers to grow more food than they needed for themselves, as they could trade this surplus for other goods.
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