Origin of Agriculture (Week 9 Lecture 12) Flashcards
True or False: animals of foragers often have multiple functions for foraging peoples. They serve as pets, hunting aids, watch-animals, camp refuse scavengers, and even surplus food when needed.
True
What materials become the first type of technological ools that helped agricultural skills grow?
Stones and copper
True or False: Hunter-gatherers are a type of nomad.
True
What are the three ages for tool making technologies.
Stone, bronze, iron
The old stone age is known as the ______ snd dated back around ______ million years.
Paleolithic, 2.5
Homo ______ species lived during the old stone age
habilis
True or False: Throughout the Paleolithic, humans generally
lived asnomadichunter-gatherers.
True
The middle stone age is known as the ______ period.
Mesolithic
EarlyHomo sapiens originated some 200,000 years ago, ushering in the______ ______.
Middle paleolithic
New stone age is known as the ______ period.
Neolithic
True or False: The mesolithic period is characterized by the beginning of villages, farming, the domestication of animals, the development of crafts such as pottery and weaving, and the making of polished stone tools .
False, neolithic
What are the three foraging subsistence patterns?
Pedestrian, equestrian, aquatic
The switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture is known as the ______ ______
Neolithic Revolution
True or False: By 8000 BC, nomadic people started to settle into agricultural communities where there was success of the cultivation of crops and the domestication of animals.
True
______ ______ are places in the world where farming practices started and diffused to other areas over time.
Agricultural hearths
When did agriculture appear?
10 000 - 5000 years ago
Grain harvest eventually led to the conscious and systematic cultivation of plants and thus the ______ revolution.
Agrarian
______, ______, and ______ were first domesticated in the Middle East between 8500 and 7000 B.C.
Sheeps, goats, pigs
______ , were not tamed until about 6500 B.C.
Horned cattle
The cultivation of ______ and ______ spread throughout the Middle East and eastward to India.
wheat and barley
The americas had ______ and ______.
maize and sweet potato
Asia had ______.
rice
Europe had ______ and ______.
rye and oats
Egypt had ______ and ______, such as flax and cotton used for clothing.
grain crops and fibers
