1. Answers must be in short essay form (no less than three full paragraphs, or 500-600 words).
2. Try to keep a logical track in your explanations: Start with a short but clear reference to the background of the topic, then explain the topic as clear as you can, and finally, specify its importance/influence. In this final section, do not employ general expressions such as the discovery of X had a profound influence on Y, or many fields in physics benefited from the invention of X. You have to explicitly mention the results.
3. Each prompt contains a few sub-questions. You have to answer ALL questions asked in the prompt.
Topic 2: Neolithic Revolution: Rise of Agriculture + Herding and Pastoral Nomadism
a) What caused these two paths of food production?
b) What were the social, technological, scientific, and cultural results of the first path, which was based on agriculture?
c) What kind of technologies developed during the Neolithic Revolution?
