Multiple Choice
High infant mortality rates, the view that children are future assets who can care for their parents in old age, and the benefits associated with child labor all encouraged individuals in agricultural states to:
A) have large families
B) rely on sorcery, witchcraft, and shamanism to ensure that very few people died
C) have small families so that special care could be accorded each child
D) raid forager and tribal groups in order to steal children who could be used to work the fields
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