Which was one result of the domestication of animals?
A- longer life spans for people
B- increased trade among villages
C- new kinds of food and clothing became possible
D- new division of between men and woman
I think it is D.
I disagree.
Ok, would the answer be C maybe? C was my first guess, but then I found a quizlet saying D and all the previous answers on the quizlet were correct and it kind of made sense because some men went after the migrating animals after agriculture started, but some stayed behind and stared irrigating with the woman. So that is why I changed my answer.
When people learned to domesticate chickens, cattle, sheep, and pigs, they had new kinds of food and clothing.
True, I guess the more significant result would have been new kinds of food and clothing, but I still not 100% confident.
I believe C is the answer. Does your book indicate that D is the better answer?
Domesticating Animals
With the development of agriculture, the human
population grew, thriving on plentiful harvests of
wheat and barley. But the area around the grain
fields was not good for wild animals. When people
cleared a piece of land, the gazelles, red deer, wild
boar, and goats that once roamed there lost much
of their natural food supply, and so they moved
on. As time passed, hunters found fewer and fewer
animals to hunt. Hunting had always required
great skill. Now hunters needed even greater skill
if they wanted to eat meat.
Some men chose to remain hunters, and they
followed the animals into different regions. Other
men, however, began to share in the work of agri-
culture. For many, farming was a more reliable
way to get food than hunting. Still others began
to catch some of the wild animals that had stayed
behind. Instead of killing them, they
domesticated
them—they tamed the animals and kept them
in herds.
Like agriculture, the domestication of ani-
mals was another significant change in human
history. By keeping a small herd of goats, sheep,
or cattle, people could be sure of having meat close at hand. As these early herders watched
the tame goats and cattle feed their young with
milk, they learned to milk the goats and cattle.
They learned to use the sheep’s woolly skin to
make clothing.
In some places, the wolves that traveled along
with people, scavenging bones and growling over
scraps, became less fierce with each generation.
Tamed descendants of those wild wolves became
dogs. Domesticated dogs accompanied people on
hunts, providing companionship and a way to
ward off enemies.