Base your answer to question 47 on the quotation

below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Long before the rule of pharaohs, Egyptians grew

wheat and barley and raised pigs, goats, sheep

and cattle. Spotty evidence had suggested that

agriculture was practiced there more than 7,000

years ago, two millenniums earlier than the first

royal dynasties.…

— John Noble Wilford, New York Times,

February 12, 2008

Which period in history is referred to in this

excerpt?

(1) Industrial Revolution

(2) Neolithic Revolution

(3) Scientific Revolution

(4) Green Revolution