As Agricultural Techniques and Resulting Harvests Improved

question 38

Multiple Choice

As agricultural techniques and resulting harvests improved,

• A) surplus production was still difficult to achieve.
• B) surplus production was at the discretion of the individual farmer.
• C) surplus production served as a kind of capital, or wealth that stimulated new kinds of socioeconomic interactions.
• D) farmers could stop producing full time and become religious leaders.
• E) a social and economic hierarchy emerged in all Neolithic societies.

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