Anthropology 150 - The Human Adventure » 2019 » Quiz 5

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Question #1
When did subsistence strategies based on domesticates in the Near East established?
A.   3500 BC
B.   7000 BC
C.   3900 BC
D.   15000 BC
Question #2
The human beings in the Natufian culture of the Near East lived by
A.   herding cattle
B.   hunting, fishing, and gathering
C.   scavenging from the kills of other predators
D.   cultivating beans and maize
E.   hunting elephants and other big game
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.   Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.
C.   Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
D.   Food foragers work harder to survive
E.   Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
Question #4
This was not domesticated in the New World
A.   Manioc
B.   Rice
C.   Sweet potato
D.   Potato
E.   Beans
Question #5
Which of the following statements is true about the origins of agriculture according to recent archaeological research
A.   domestication was first developed in the Near East and spread by diffusion from there to the rest of the world
B.   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
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.   intensified farming
B.   nomadic pastoralism
C.   simple farming
D.   hunting and gathering
Question #7
In Mesoamerica domesticated maize was cultivated by
A.   3500 BC
B.   7000 BC
C.   500 BC
D.   2000 BC
Question #8
Where can be find Mesopotamia
A.   The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
B.   The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
C.   The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
D.   The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
E.   The area between Quito and Lima
Question #9
Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented
A.   At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
B.   During the Natufian period
C.   in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection
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.   beginning of cave art
D.   universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

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