Agricultural Origins and Dispersals

Target entity: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Context triple: [Carl O. Sauer, notableWork, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals]

• A. Eastern Agricultural Complex
  The Eastern Agricultural Complex was a prehistoric North American system of plant domestication and cultivation, centered in the Eastern Woodlands and involving native seed crops such as goosefoot, sumpweed, and maygrass before the widespread adoption of maize agriculture.
• B. Neolithic Revolution
  The Neolithic Revolution was the prehistoric transition during which human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, leading to the rise of villages, population growth, and the foundations of complex civilizations.
• C. Origine des plantes cultivées
  Origine des plantes cultivées is a seminal 19th-century botanical work that investigates the geographic origins, domestication, and early history of major cultivated plants.
• D. Bantu expansion
  The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations by Bantu-speaking peoples across sub-Saharan Africa that spread related languages, ironworking, and agricultural practices over much of the continent.
• E. Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America
  The Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America were pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies marked by increasing social complexity, regional trade networks, and early experimentation with plant domestication that laid the groundwork for later Woodland traditions.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Target entity description: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals is a seminal work in cultural geography that examines how agriculture first developed in different world regions and spread across the globe, reshaping human societies and landscapes.

• A. Eastern Agricultural Complex
  The Eastern Agricultural Complex was a prehistoric North American system of plant domestication and cultivation, centered in the Eastern Woodlands and involving native seed crops such as goosefoot, sumpweed, and maygrass before the widespread adoption of maize agriculture.
• B. Neolithic Revolution
  The Neolithic Revolution was the prehistoric transition during which human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, leading to the rise of villages, population growth, and the foundations of complex civilizations.
• C. Origine des plantes cultivées
  Origine des plantes cultivées is a seminal 19th-century botanical work that investigates the geographic origins, domestication, and early history of major cultivated plants.
• D. Bantu expansion
  The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations by Bantu-speaking peoples across sub-Saharan Africa that spread related languages, ironworking, and agricultural practices over much of the continent.
• E. Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America
  The Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America were pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies marked by increasing social complexity, regional trade networks, and early experimentation with plant domestication that laid the groundwork for later Woodland traditions.
• F. None of above. chosen