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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.   15000 BC
D.   3900 BC
Question #2
The human beings in the Natufian culture of the Near East lived by
A.   hunting elephants and other big game
B.   hunting, fishing, and gathering
C.   herding cattle
D.   scavenging from the kills of other predators
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.   Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
C.   Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
D.   Farmers have a more secure supply of food.
E.   Food foragers work harder to survive
Question #4
This was not domesticated in the New World
A.   Rice
B.   Manioc
C.   Beans
D.   Sweet potato
E.   Potato
Question #5
Recent archaeological research on the origins of agriculture shows that
A.   broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication
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.   domestication was first developed in the Near East and spread by diffusion from there to the rest of the world
Question #6
State societies most often are associated with a subsistence base that is based upon
A.   hunting and gathering
B.   simple farming
C.   intensified farming
D.   nomadic pastoralism
Question #7
In Mesoamerica domesticated maize was cultivated by
A.   2000 BC
B.   500 BC
C.   7000 BC
D.   3500 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 Quito and Lima
C.   The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
D.   The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
E.   The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
Question #9
In Mesopotamia, writing was first invented
A.   in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection
B.   During the Natufian period
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.   beginning of cave art
D.   universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

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