Name and briefly describe each of the four primary modes of production

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER:
Foraging is food collection; horticulture is use of hand-crafted tools to plant and grow domesticated crops; pastoralism is the herding and maintenance of animals; and agriculture is intensive use of land for permanent cropping.

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