Read the Following Scenario and Answer the Question Below

question 10

Multiple Choice

Read the following scenario and answer the question below.
Early People and Agricultural Beginnings:
Long ago, two sisters were talking as they returned from their morning trip to collect mushrooms, seeds, berries, and green le the day's meals. The younger woman was watching the progress of a small rabbit as it hopped across the path and toward the trash midden (refuse heap) , where broken tools (made of bone, stone, or shell) were tossed, and where discarded food was thr She noticed the rabbit stop and begin nibbling at the many new, green shoots sprouting across one side of the midden. She wa over to look, and she saw that some of last year's discarded dried fruits were growing. Surprised and interested, she called he over to discuss this find.
-The next step in this story would likely be that this woman and her sister _______________.

• A)began to trade seeds with people from other villages
• B)began to deliberately plant seeds near their village to make food gathering easier in the future
• C)started a full -scale garden,digging the soil and enriching it with food wastes
• D)began to save,sort,and name different types of seeds
• E)began to seek out old middens to find and eat the things growing there

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