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GloryVee Jordan
Danica Juanito
A horticultural society is one in which people
spread west through Europe and Africa and east through Asia. They were the first
type of society in which people grew their own food, rather than relying strictly on the
hunter-gather technique. This means that they were also the first type of society in
accumulation of food and goods was possible, and with it, a more complex division of
horticultural societies. The most simple use tools such as axes (to clear forest)
and wooden sticks and metal spades for digging. More advanced forms may
use foot-plows and manure, terracing and irrigation, and rest plots of land in
because the social ties and structure were organized around the
(Conversely, hunter-gatherer societies were typically