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6.12 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agriculture Worksheet

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Neolithic Revolution and Early Agriculture — Explain how agriculture changed settlement, work, trade, and early societies. Alignment: 6.12.

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

Archaeologists find that as farming spreads, some groups adopt pastoralism (herding) rather than crop farming, yet still become more settled than earlier foragers.

Which statement best explains how herding can also transform settlement patterns?

APastoralism requires constant random wandering with no repeated locations, so settlement cannot increase.

BHerd management can encourage predictable routes, seasonal bases, and investment in corrals and storage, increasing settlement permanence.

CHerding prevents any storage because animals cannot be stored or managed.

DHerding is identical to hunting, so it cannot produce new technologies.

Solution & Explanation:Key clue: Archaeologists find that as farming spreads, some groups adopt pastoralism (herding) rather than crop farming, yet still become more settled than earlier foragers supports this pattern: surplus + permanence → coordination/specialization → new power structures and risks. Answer choice B states that relationship: Herd management can encourage predictable routes, seasonal bases, and investment in corrals and storage, increasing settlement permanence.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

At a site, researchers find clear evidence of crop domestication but also continued use of wild plants and animals for centuries.

Which statement best explains why the Neolithic transition is often gradual rather than sudden?

ATransitions must be sudden because once one crop is planted, all wild food disappears immediately.

BEarly farmers often mixed strategies, and domestication spread as communities balanced risk, labor, and local opportunities.

CGradual change proves agriculture was a myth and never occurred anywhere.

DWild foods could not be eaten once people built permanent houses.

Solution & Explanation:The key clue is At a site, researchers find clear evidence of crop domestication but also continued use of wild plants and animals for centuries. In Neolithic societies, this usually means a chain: surplus + permanence → coordination/specialization → new power structures and risks. B is correct: Early farmers often mixed strategies, and domestication spread as communities balanced risk, labor, and local opportunities.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

A society shifts to farming, then develops a warrior elite who controls fertile valley land while others farm less productive slopes.

Which statement best explains how farming can be linked to social stratification and conflict?

AFarming eliminates elites because land cannot be controlled once crops are planted.

BWarrior elites arise only from sea piracy and cannot be connected to agriculture.

CFixed fertile land becomes a controllable resource, so elites may use force to monopolize it and extract surplus.

DSlope farming always produces more surplus than valleys, so elites would avoid valleys.

Solution & Explanation:Because A society shifts to farming, then develops a warrior elite who controls fertile valley land while others farm less productive slopes, agriculture is changing a chain: surplus + permanence → coordination/specialization → new power structures and risks. That is exactly what C says: Fixed fertile land becomes a controllable resource, so elites may use force to monopolize it and extract surplus.

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