As agricultural techniques and resulting harvests improved,

a. surplus production was still difficult to achieve.
b. surplus production was at the discretion of the individual farmer.
c. surplus production served as a kind of capital, or wealth that stimulated new kinds of socioeconomic interactions.
d. farmers could stop producing full time and become religious leaders.
e. a social and economic hierarchy emerged in all Neolithic societies.


c

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