first farmers

Question 1

sugar origin

Answer 1

southeast asia

Question 2

corn orig

Answer 2

mesoamerica

Question 3

potatoes orig

Answer 3

andes

Question 4

special sauce

Answer 4

france

Question 5

beef lettuce bun wheat

Answer 5

middle east

Question 6

3 origins of agriclture

Answer 6

peopling earth, climate change, adaptation(domestication)

Question 7

peopling the earth

Answer 7

folowing megafauna

Question 8

climate change

Answer 8

12000 years ago, end of ice age, microliths, broad spectrum food resources

Question 9

adaptation(domestication)

Answer 9

neolithic, transition from foraging to production

Question 10

neolithic revolution

Answer 10

transition from foraging to production

Question 11

Evidence of Early Plant Domestication 5

Answer 11

1. Increased size

· 2. Increased yields

· 3. Decreased defenses (husks, toxins)

· 4. Loss of natural means of seed dispersal

· 5. Loss of delayed seed germination

Question 12

Evidence of Early animalDomestication

Answer 12

• Change in skeletal structure (teeth, tusks)
• Selection for smaller size
• Decreased defenses, increased dependence

Question 13

Asparagus, cabbage, grapes, olives, pears

Answer 13

S. Europe (6000 Before Present)

Question 14

conclusion to when and where food was originated from

Answer 14

o Global phenomenon

o Early Holocene

Question 15

Early Neolithic Societies

Answer 15

• Settled village life and permanent housing
• Village size: few hundred to few thousand inhabitants
• Little evidence of social differentiation (people not depending on one another)

Question 16

Late Neolithic Societies

Answer 16

• Larger settlements
• Monuments and earthworks with ceremonial significance
• Profound changes in political organization
• Population growing
• Trade and currency emerging
• Class hierarchies emerging
• Elaborations of burials, including grave goods

Question 17

Why the Transition from Foraging to Farming, 3 theories

Answer 17

oasis, demographic pressue and increasing scarcity,Accidental co-evolution (dump-heap theory)

Question 18

Oasis Theory

Answer 18

: increasing aridity drove people to the flood plains

Question 19

Demographic pressure and increasing scarcity theory

Answer 19

Wild sources declining, people increasing

Question 20

Accidental co-evolution (dump-heap theory

Answer 20

People dumping their waste so farming “accidentally” happened

Question 21

benefits of farming 4

Answer 21

1. More edible calories per acre
2. Reliable food source and food surplus
3. People control the rate of plant reproduction and reproduction can be intensified without consequence
4. pottery smelting and social inventions

Question 22

consequences of farming

Answer 22

1more work 2less adequate diet 3 delayed reward 4social inequality

Question 23

broad spectrum revolution

Answer 23

foraging varied plant foods

Question 24

mesolithic era

Answer 24

microlith, broad spectrum economy, switch to fast reproducing animals (shellfish)

Question 25

seminomadic hunting(Natufin)

Answer 25

12-10000 ya, one place still hunting gathering

Question 26

dry farming caprine domestication

Answer 26

10-7500 ya

Question 27

increased specialization of food

Answer 27

7500-5500 ya

Question 28

origin of state

Answer 28

5500 ya

Question 29

high plateau

Answer 29

northern most

Question 30

hilly flanks

Answer 30

2nd most northern. where gathering was highly optimal, domesticated animals

Question 31

piedmont steppe

Answer 31

2nd moust southern. copied hilly flanks to produce farming 9000 ya

Question 32

aluvial desert

Answer 32

most southern. needed irrigation 7000 ya

Question 33

wheat, barely, sheep, goats, cattle

Answer 33

Fertile Crescent (10,000 BP

Question 34

Rice, millet, pigs, chicken

Answer 34

East Asia (7500 BP)

Question 35

Maize, beans, squash, chili, tomatoes, turkey

Answer 35

Highland Mexico (4700 BP)

Question 36

Maize, beans, squash, chili, tomatoes, turkey

Answer 36

Highland Mexico (4700 BP)

Question 37

Potatoes, quinoa, squash, beans, gourds, llamas

Answer 37

Andes/ Amazon (4500 BP)

Question 38

Sunflower, chenopodium, amaranth, gourds

Answer 38

North America (4500 BP)

Question 39

Sorghum, millet, African rice

Answer 39

Tropical Africa (4000 BP)