Unlike the pattern in the Old World, plant domestication in the New World

A. involved no food plants, but instead was used to increase the production of utilitarian plants such as bottle gourds and hemp.
B. occurred before the rise of the first sedentary communities.
C. was apparently not necessary for the development of states such as Teotihuacán.
D. was begun but then abandoned before there was a chance for societies to develop into states.
E. occurred after the rise of the first sedentary communities.


Answer: B

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