Exam 8: The First Farmers 

The domestication of the dog

In the Middle East, early cultivation began as an attempt to copy, in a less favorable environment, the dense stands of wheat and barley that grew wild in the hilly flanks. All of the following either motivated or facilitated this attempt EXCEPT

The domestication of plants and animals for food independently occurred in both the Old World and the Americas approximately 11,000 years ago.

In the New World, sedentism occurred before domestication.

In the Middle East, sedentism developed before plants and animals were domesticated.

Which of the following is a benefit of farming?

Which of the following is NOT one of the areas where food production was independently invented?

Anthropologists once thought that domestication would happen almost automatically once people gained sufficient knowledge of plants and animals and their reproductive habits to figure out how to make domestication work. They now know that

What is the name given to the cultural period in which the first signs of domestication were present?

With a more reliable food source, the early food producers were considerably healthier than the hunter-gatherers.

What is sedentism?

The foundations of the state-a social and political unit featuring a central government, extreme contrasts of wealth, and social classes-emerged

Where did the earliest domestication of animals and plants in the Middle East occur?

China was host to three different centers of domestication: one in the north, one in the south, and one on the eastern coast.

Contrary to the old assumption that New World farming originated in the upland areas, recent research suggests that

The domesticated millet that appeared in China around 7500 B.P. was first domesticated in sub-Saharan Africa by about 8000 B.P., then diffused to China through long-distance trade networks.

With domestication, the husk that encloses the edible portion of wild cereals became

The Natufians' ability to exploit their rich local environment with broad-spectrum foraging made it possible for them to

Which of the following was a consequence of domestication?

The broad-spectrum revolution in Europe included the late Upper Paleolithic and the Mesolithic, which followed it. What tool type characterized the Mesolithic?