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Question #1
When did subsistence strategies based on domesticates in the Near East established?
A.   3500 BC
B.   15000 BC
C.   3900 BC
D.   7000 BC
Question #2
In the Natufian culture of the Near East human beings lived by
A.   herding cattle
B.   hunting elephants and other big game
C.   scavenging from the kills of other predators
D.   hunting, fishing, and gathering
E.   cultivating beans and maize
Question #3
What makes farming life different from food foraging
A.   Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.
B.   Food foragers work harder to survive
C.   Farmers have a more secure supply of food.
D.   Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
E.   Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
Question #4
This was not domesticated in the New World
A.   Manioc
B.   Potato
C.   Beans
D.   Sweet potato
E.   Rice
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.   intensified farming
C.   nomadic pastoralism
D.   simple farming
Question #7
When was domesticated maize cultivated In Mesoamerica
A.   3500 BC
B.   2000 BC
C.   500 BC
D.   7000 BC
Question #8
Where can be find Mesopotamia
A.   The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
B.   The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
C.   The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
D.   The area between Quito and Lima
E.   The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
Question #9
Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented
A.   in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection
B.   At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
C.   During the Natufian period
Question #10
The end of the Palaeolithic period coincides with,,
A.   universal abandonment of hunting and gathering
B.   beginning of cave art
C.   a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets
D.   change from stone to metal tools

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