State the reasons why early people domesticated crops and animals during the neo-lithic period.
Answer:
- Due to increased human population, more food was required.
- There was competition for food between human beings and animals.
-Overhunting depleted stocks of animals on which human beings relied on for food.
- Calamities such as bush fires/ floods destroyed vegetation/ drove away animals.
- Some crops and animals had economic value.
- Animals were domesticated to provide security.
- There was change in climate which caused aridity/ weather sometimes hindered gathering and hunting.