SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the BEST explanation for why farming peoples like Egyptians and Sumerians, rather than hunter-gatherers, started the world’s first civilizations?
A
Farmers were able to change their religion and by praying to the Gods they were able to accumulate more food.
B
Hunter-gatherers were not able to communicate effectively with each other so they could not get food for themselves.
C
Hunter-gatherers were not able to travel fast enough to find their food and they did not have any tools to help them.
D
Farmers were able to accumulate surpluses to support large, permanent settlements and people who worked at non-farming jobs.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -These include: large population centers; monumental architecture and unique art styles; shared communication strategies; systems for administering territories; a complex division of labor; and the division of people into social and economic classes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Egyptians were among the first peoples to practice agriculture on a large scale, starting in the pre-dynastic period from the end of the Paleolithic into the Neolithic, between around 10, 000 BC and 4000 BC. This was made possible with the development of basin irrigation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thanks to agriculture, people could grow more food than they needed and save the extra for the future. This let the population size increase, and the small bands of hunter-gatherers turned into towns with hundreds of people.

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