Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) have followed large game into a new continent 
B) want to increase their population more rapidly 
C) are having the most problems following their traditional subsistence strategy 
D) have already organized into a state-level society 
E) worship animals

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) Upper Paleolithic 
B) Mesolithic 
C) Microlithic 
D) Chalcolithic 
E) Neolithic

Question 6

The wild ancestor of maize (corn) is teosinte.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

A vertical economy is

Accepted Answer

A) a system of top-down exchange across regions. 
B) a system that exploits closely spaced environmental zones that contrast with one another in altitude, rainfall, overall climate, and vegetation. 
C) one of the types of segmentary lineage organization found in regions of East Africa. 
D) a means of integrating a society based on hereditary inequality and coercion. 
E) a form of indirect-biased transmission.

Question 8

__________ was not domesticated in the New World.

Accepted Answer

A) Barley 
B) Squash 
C) Cassava 
D) Beans 
E) Maize

Question 9

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) Global climate change and politics. 
B) Looting and armed conflicts. 
C) Politics and cost of excavation. 
D) Global climate change and local disinterest 
E) None of the above is correct.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

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.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Discuss the genetic and morphological changes in...

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A) New World peoples did not know how to domesticate animals. 
B) Human populations in the New World were quite small, so animal domestication was not necessary. 
C) the large-game animals that were hunted during earlier periods either had gone extinct or were not domesticable. 
D) wild birds (e.g., turkeys, ducks) already provided enough protein to the diet. 
E) New World peoples tried continually to domesticate large animals but were never successful.

Question 14

The Natufians were

Accepted Answer

A) broad-spectrum foragers who lived in year-round villages in the Middle East. 
B) the first farmers in highland Peru. 
C) long-distance traders responsible for the spread of food production from the Middle East to the Indus River Valley. 
D) the first Siberian big-game hunters to cross the Bering land bridge. 
E) the first North American Paleoindians to settle in permanent villages.

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A) occurred after the first sedentary communities. 
B) occurred before the first sedentary communities. 
C) was not necessary for the development of states, such as Teotihuacan. 
D) did not involve edible plants. 
E) was abandoned.

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) The shift to a broad-spectrum subsistence pattern around 15,000 B.P. 
B) The availability of wild cereals with edible grains 
C) The diffusion of domesticated animal species from southern Europe 
D) Drier conditions and population increase, leading people to experiment with planting wild cereals in new ecological niches 
E) Favorable changes in cultivated grains resulting from artificial selection by humans

Question 19

Maize (corn) first domesticated in

Accepted Answer

A) Mexico 
B) New England 
C) Lowlands of South America 
D) Beringia 
E) American Southwest

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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.