Horticultural societies are best described as which?

Horticultural societies are best described as which?

• A. They are gardeners
• B. They rely on irrigation
• C. They rely on large-scale industrial agriculture
• D. They practice nomadic pastoralism

Answer: (A)

Horticultural societies are defined by cultivating crops in small garden plots using human labor and simple tools, often with shifting cultivation and rainfall-fed farming. This makes them essentially gardeners—tarming and tending crops in gardens rather than running large, irrigation-based or machine-driven farming. They’re not built on large-scale industrial agriculture or heavy irrigation, and they’re not centered on herding animals, which is what nomadic pastoralism describes. So tending gardens best captures the core activity of horticultural groups.

Horticultural societies are defined by cultivating crops in small garden plots using human labor and simple tools, often with shifting cultivation and rainfall-fed farming. This makes them essentially gardeners—tarming and tending crops in gardens rather than running large, irrigation-based or machine-driven farming. They’re not built on large-scale industrial agriculture or heavy irrigation, and they’re not centered on herding animals, which is what nomadic pastoralism describes. So tending gardens best captures the core activity of horticultural groups.