Consider the sites of Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk for this question. Do you think that the driving force of change in SW Asia was environmental change or social change? Why do you think people adopted agriculture in this region? Was it to deal with an environment that was constantly in flux, or was it to support a growing, more social, more culturally complex population? Note that there really isn't a "right" answer to this question, as archaeologists have been debating it for about 100 years.

Consider the sites of Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk for this question. Do you think that the driving force of change in SW Asia was environmental change or social change? Why do you think people adopted agriculture in this region? Was it to deal with an environment that was constantly in flux, or was it to support a growing, more social, more culturally complex population? Note that there really isn't a "right" answer to this question, as archaeologists have been debating it for about 100 years.