Exam 8: The First Farmers 

Nabta Playa was an important center for prehistoric herders in southern Egypt.

Corn, beans, and squash were the major crops to be domesticated in Mexico.

In the Middle East, as subsistence economies became more specialized and more dependent on domesticated species, population centers began to emerge that had temples, writing, and canals for irrigating fields.

Which of the following was NOT domesticated in China?

Food production was a critical step toward the broad-spectrum revolution.

There were at least three independent centers of domestication in the New World.

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.

Compared to those of wild plants, the seeds of domesticated plants are larger and less likely to shatter and disperse.

What is the name of the wild ancestor of maize?

What is a vertical economy?

Which of the following was NOT domesticated in the eastern United States?

Wheels fueled the growth of transport, trade, and travel in the Old World thousands of years after the origin of food production.

Which of the following is a key difference between the food-producing traditions of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica that helps us understand the subsequent histories in the two regions?