Explain how the accumulation of surplus contributed to the growth of social inequality
What will be an ideal response
Once food supplies in pastoral and horticultural societies allowed for permanent settlement, some individuals could devote their energies to tasks other than those involving food production. This specialization enabled the production of more surplus goods, which further encouraged trade. The outcome was an unequal distribution of goods, and eventually, social inequality.
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a. empirical b. inferential c. ordinal d. interval-ratio
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