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Question #1
In the Near East subsistence strategies based on domesticates were fully established by
A.
15000 BC
B.
3900 BC
C.
7000 BC
D.
3500 BC
Question #2
In the Natufian culture of the Near East human beings lived by
A.
herding cattle
B.
cultivating beans and maize
C.
hunting, fishing, and gathering
D.
hunting elephants and other big game
E.
scavenging from the kills of other predators
Question #3
Which of the following statements about farming life as opposed to food foraging is correct?
A.
Farmers have a more secure supply of food.
B.
Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
C.
Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
D.
Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.
E.
Food foragers work harder to survive
Question #4
This was not domesticated in the New World
A.
Potato
B.
Sweet potato
C.
Rice
D.
Beans
E.
Manioc
Question #5
Recent archaeological research on the origins of agriculture shows that
A.
climatic changes at the end of the last Ice Age created conditions of adaptive stress to which the development of food production was a response
B.
domestication was first developed in the Near East and spread by diffusion from there to the rest of the world
C.
broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication
Question #6
State societies most often are associated with a subsistence base that is based upon
A.
hunting and gathering
B.
nomadic pastoralism
C.
simple farming
D.
intensified farming
Question #7
When was domesticated maize cultivated In Mesoamerica
A.
2000 BC
B.
3500 BC
C.
7000 BC
D.
500 BC
Question #8
Where can be find Mesopotamia
A.
The area between Quito and Lima
B.
The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
C.
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
D.
The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
E.
The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
Question #9
Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented
A.
During the Natufian period
B.
in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection
C.
At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
Question #10
The end of the Palaeolithic period coincides with,,
A.
change from stone to metal tools
B.
a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets
C.
universal abandonment of hunting and gathering
D.
beginning of cave art
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