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PLSS I NEED HElP :( How did the domestication of plants and animals change early societies?

Food surpluses provided enough resources to supply larger populations.
Food surpluses led people to abandon settlements in favor of living on farms.
Food surpluses allowed people to spend less time planting and more time hunting.
Food surpluses caused conflict over resources, which caused settlements to separate.

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Food surpluses provided enough resources to supply larger populations.

Step-by-step explanation:

With the domestication of plants and animals, the earlier societies were able to make more food for themselves than hunting and gathering supplied. This led to them being able to maintain larger populations that would have died out earlier due to a lack of food.

For instance, it is estimated that before the domestication of plants and animals, humans numbered between 6 and 10 million people but 10,000 years after the domestication, the human population numbered about 250 million showing the influence the domestication had.

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