Around Twelve Thousand Years Ago, in What We Now Call

question 9

Multiple Choice

Around twelve thousand years ago, in what we now call the Middle East, people began to domesticate grain, a process that slowly spread around the world over the next six to seven thousand years. In 1984, 8 percent of U.S. households had a computer; by 2008, that number was estimated to be above 70 percent. How do these two things relate to social change?

• A) Neither is an example of social change.
• B) The change in computer ownership isn't social change, as the text defines it, because it's not consequential enough.
• C) Both are examples of social change, occurring at different rates.
• D) The change in agriculture was a social change, but not the change in computer ownership.
• E) The change in computer ownership was a social change, but not the change in agriculture.

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