Which tool helped farmers plant seeds efficiently?

• A. Hoe
• B. Plow
• C. Sickle
• D. Shovel

Answer: (B)

The main idea is how technology that prepares the land can dramatically speed up farming. The plow turns over and breaks up the soil, creating furrows that make it easier to plant seeds in neat, even rows. This turns a long, labor-intensive task into a faster, more scalable process, letting farmers cover more ground and plant more seeds with less effort per unit area.

A hoe is useful for lighter tilling and weeding, especially on smaller patches, but it’s manual and slower for large fields. A sickle is designed for harvesting crops, not for preparing land for planting. A shovel digs and moves soil, but it doesn’t efficiently create the broad, even beds needed for planting across vast areas.

So, the tool that best enables efficient planting across larger fields is the plow.