Unit 0 SAQ Practice
Use the passage below and your knowledge of world history to answer all parts of the question that follows
One of the most momentous changes in the history of the human species was surely the domestication of plants and animals - the invention of agriculture... The transition from foraging to farming would have made profound differences to nearly all aspects of the lifestyle of prehistoric women and men... The discovery of farming techniques has usually been assumed to have been made by men, but it is in fact very much more likely to have been made by women. On the basis of anthropological evidence for societies still living traditional foraging life-styles and those living by simple, non-mechanical farming, taken in conjunction with direct archaeological evidence, it seems probable that it was women who made the first observations of plant behavior, and worked out, presumably by long trial and error, how to grow and tend crops.
Margaret Ehrenberg, historian, Women in Prehistory, 1989
Question 1
Identify one social change that supports the author's view about the significance of the transition to agriculture.
Question 2
Explain one reason for a social change resulting from the transition to agriculture.
Question 3
Explain what might have influenced the author's emphasis in her account of the invention of agriculture.
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