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.   15000 BC
B.   3500 BC
C.   7000 BC
D.   3900 BC
Question #2
In the Natufian culture of the Near East human beings lived by
A.   hunting, fishing, and gathering
B.   herding cattle
C.   hunting elephants and other big game
D.   scavenging from the kills of other predators
E.   cultivating beans and maize
Question #3
Which of the following statements about farming life as opposed to food foraging is correct?
A.   Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.
B.   Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.
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.   Potato
C.   Sweet potato
D.   Beans
E.   Manioc
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.   broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication
C.   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
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
In Mesoamerica domesticated maize was cultivated by
A.   7000 BC
B.   500 BC
C.   2000 BC
D.   3500 BC
Question #8
Where can be find Mesopotamia
A.   The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
B.   The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
C.   The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
D.   The area between Quito and Lima
E.   The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
Question #9
Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented
A.   During the Natufian period
B.   At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
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.   beginning of cave art
B.   change from stone to metal tools
C.   a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets
D.   universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

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