Question Statement: How did hunter-gatherers shift from gathering food to farming and herding?
Instructions:
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Explain how climatic changes and increase in population led to the growth of agriculture.
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Explain how human beings started using agriculture to control animals.
Solution:
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Hunter-gatherers used to obtain their food by hunting animals and collecting food items such as wild berries, fruits, edible roots, etc. from forest.
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Due to some major changes in the climate, the surrounding of the earth became increasingly warmer.
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Due to these sudden climatic changes large portions of forest were converted into grasslands.
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Grasslands are vast areas covered with grass and grass-like plants.
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These grasslands provided fodder for grazing animals and edible grains for human beings.
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As a result, human beings came in close contact with these grazing animals and plants.
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People likely started observing the places where edible plants grew and came to know how a plant grows from a seed.
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They started protecting these plants from animals and gradually started farming.
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As people started to practise agriculture more and more, it started attracting animals near their camp.
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They started to feed these animals and started protecting them from wild animals.
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This was done in order to get a continuous supply of dairy products and meat.
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Thus hunter-gatherers started farming and herding.
Instructions:
-
Explain how climatic changes and increase in population led to the growth of agriculture.
-
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.
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Thus hunter-gatherers started farming and herding.
