Document 1 From Food Gathering To Food Producing
... Paleolithic men could not control their food supply, so long as they relied on foraging,
hunting, fishing, and trapping, they were dependent on the natural food supply in a given
area to keep from starving, But while Paleolithic men continued their food gathering pattern
of existence in Europe, Africa, and Australia, groups of people in the Near East began to
cultivate edible plants and to breed animals. Often described as the "first economic
revolution in the history of man, this momentous change from a food gathering to a
food-producing economy initiated the Neolithic Age, Paleolithic man was a hunter; Neolithic
man became a farmer and herdsmanna
Source T Walter Wallbank, et al, Civilization: Post and Present, Scott, Foresman and Company from
the January, 2010 NYS Global History and Geography Regents Examination
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