Read the passage and answer the question below.Around 7, 000 years ago, agriculture emerged in Mesoamerica, including the domestication of maize, beans, and squash, causing major changes in the plants that people cultivated. Three sisters agriculture had spread across Mexico by 3, 500 years ago, though they originated at different times.-Source:Amanda J. Landon, anthropologist, The How of the Three Sisters, 2008Why was this method of planting important?

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Read the passage and answer the question below."Around 7, 000 years ago, agriculture emerged in Mesoamerica, including the domestication of maize, beans, and squash, causing major changes in the plants that people cultivated. Three sisters agriculture had spread across Mexico by 3, 500 years ago, though they originated at different times."-Source:Amanda J. Landon, anthropologist, “The ‘How’ of the Three Sisters, “ 2008Why was this method of planting important?

A	These three crops were arranged ceremonially so that they could be used for religious purposes as offerings for the gods
B	These three were “cash crops” for societies like the Iroquois and Susquehannocks, as these were the only commodity they could sell to the English to fund their Confederacy
C	These three crops mutually supported each other’s growth, a system that spread from present-day Mexico northward into the present-day American Southwest.
D	These three crops attracted wild turkeys and other wild game, which made hunting easier for more sedentary communities.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Between 9, 000 and 7, 000 years ago (reported as early as 10, 000 years ago in Smith 2001a), they began exploiting many of the plants that were later domesticated, including squash.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Mesoamerican method of agriculture, chinampa is an artificial cultivation system built in areas where water is the main natural resource present in the environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Olmecs (/ˈɒlmɛks, ˈoʊl-/) were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization. Following a progressive development in Soconusco, they occupied the tropical lowlands of the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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