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Question Statement: How did hunter-gatherers shift from gathering food to farming and herding?

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  1. Explain how climatic changes and increase in population led to the growth of agriculture.

  2. Explain how human beings started using agriculture to control animals.

Solution:

  • Hunter-gatherers used to obtain their food by hunting animals and collecting food items such as wild berries, fruits, edible roots, etc. from forest.

  • Due to some major changes in the climate, the surrounding of the earth became increasingly warmer.

  • Due to these sudden climatic changes large portions of forest were converted into grasslands.

  • Grasslands are vast areas covered with grass and grass-like plants.

  • These grasslands provided fodder for grazing animals and edible grains for human beings.

  • As a result, human beings came in close contact with these grazing animals and plants.

  • People likely started observing the places where edible plants grew and came to know how a plant grows from a seed.

  • They started protecting these plants from animals and gradually started farming.

  • As people started to practise agriculture more and more, it started attracting animals near their camp.

  • They started to feed these animals and started protecting them from wild animals.

  • This was done in order to get a continuous supply of dairy products and meat.

  • Thus hunter-gatherers started farming and herding.


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