Exam 8: The First Farmers

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

Compared to wild plants, the seeds of domesticated plants are larger and less likely to break free from the stalk and disperse.

A vertical economy exploits environmental zones that are close together in space, but differentiated by altitude, rainfall, overall climate, and vegetation.

People who __________ are the most likely to adopt a new subsistence strategy, like food production.

__________ identifies the cultural period in which the first signs of domestication are present.

The wild ancestor of maize (corn) is teosinte.

A vertical economy is

__________ was not domesticated in the New World.

Native Americans living in what is now the eastern United States established sedentary villages and a full-fledged Neolithic economy based on squash, sunflower, sumpweed, and goosefoot.

__________ are among the threats to several known archaeological sites and finds around the world.

Food production was invented independently in Egypt less than 1,000 years after domestication began in the Middle East.

Discuss the genetic and morphological changes in plants that were domesticated in the Old World (e.g., the Middle East) and the New World (e.g., Mexico).Cite specific domesticated plants to illustrate your answer.

Animal domestication was less important in the New World than it was in the Old World because

The Natufians were

Unlike in the Old World, plant domestication in the New World

The Natufians were the first people to domesticate sorghum and millet.

Neolithic is the cultural period in a given region during which stone tools were first produced.

____________ did not contribute the development of food production in the Middle East.

Maize (corn) first domesticated in

There were three separate centers of domestication in China-one in the north, one in the south, and one on the eastern coast.