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Answer this survey without thought: fertile crescent/ mesopotamia, central america, sub-saharan africa, china. In this survey, most of my peers from cluster m1cw answered a; however, the answer is more nuanced than most believe. It is incorrect to say that agriculture came from one of these regions alone. Instead, agriculture came from various areas across the world simultaneously and independently (hariri, 2015, pg. While analyzing textbooks, case studies, and results from the google searchbar, i find a common trend in which misinformation shapes society"s perception of agricultural history. The provision of incomplete data reveals such misinformation. In ap world history at high school, i read the textbook traditions and encounters: 5th edition, which stated that mesopotamia was the first region to undergo the agricultural revolution, thus influencing global societies (bentley. The textbook never mentioned the agricultural dominance in other geographical regions.
