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Question #1
When did subsistence strategies based on domesticates in the Near East established?
A.   7000 BC
B.   3500 BC
C.   3900 BC
D.   15000 BC
Question #2
In the Natufian culture of the Near East human beings lived by
A.   hunting, fishing, and gathering
B.   cultivating beans and maize
C.   scavenging from the kills of other predators
D.   herding cattle
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.   Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers
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.   Farmers have a more secure supply of food.
Question #4
Which of the following was not domesticated in the New World?
A.   Potato
B.   Rice
C.   Beans
D.   Sweet potato
E.   Manioc
Question #5
Which of the following statements is true about the origins of agriculture according to recent archaeological research
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.   broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication
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.   simple farming
B.   nomadic pastoralism
C.   hunting and gathering
D.   intensified farming
Question #7
In Mesoamerica domesticated maize was cultivated by
A.   3500 BC
B.   7000 BC
C.   2000 BC
D.   500 BC
Question #8
Where is Mesopotamia?
A.   The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran
B.   The area along the Indus River in Pakistan
C.   The area between Quito and Lima
D.   The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China
E.   The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala
Question #9
Writing in Mesopotamia was first invented
A.   At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.
B.   in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection
C.   During the Natufian period
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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