Practice question · Multiple choice
Why did farming begin independently in seven regions within a few thousand years?
Hints
- 300,000 years of nobody farming, then seven inventions almost at once.
- What changed globally at 11,700 years ago?
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D. The end of the Ice Age gave every region a stable Holocene
Why
Simultaneity on five continents with no contact points at one common cause: the Holocene. Give every region a stable climate at once and, in region after region, people walk into the same trap.
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