Origin of Agriculture (Week 9 Lecture 12)

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What materials become the first type of technological ools that helped agricultural skills grow?

Answer 2

Stones and copper

Question 3

True or False: Hunter-gatherers are a type of nomad.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are the three ages for tool making technologies.

Answer 4

Stone, bronze, iron

Question 5

The old stone age is known as the ______ snd dated back around ______ million years.

Answer 5

Paleolithic, 2.5

Question 6

Homo ______ species lived during the old stone age

Answer 6

habilis

Question 7

True or False: Throughout the Paleolithic, humans generally

lived asnomadichunter-gatherers.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The middle stone age is known as the ______ period.

Answer 8

Mesolithic

Question 9

EarlyHomo sapiens originated some 200,000 years ago, ushering in the______ ______.

Answer 9

Middle paleolithic

Question 10

New stone age is known as the ______ period.

Answer 10

Neolithic

Question 11

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 .

Answer 11

False, neolithic

Question 12

What are the three foraging subsistence patterns?

Answer 12

Pedestrian, equestrian, aquatic

Question 13

The switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture is known as the ______ ______

Answer 13

Neolithic Revolution

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

______ ______ are places in the world where farming practices started and diffused to other areas over time.

Answer 15

Agricultural hearths

Question 16

When did agriculture appear?

Answer 16

10 000 - 5000 years ago

Question 17

Grain harvest eventually led to the conscious and systematic cultivation of plants and thus the ______ revolution.

Answer 17

Agrarian

Question 18

______, ______, and ______ were first domesticated in the Middle East between 8500 and 7000 B.C.

Answer 18

Sheeps, goats, pigs

Question 19

______ , were not tamed until about 6500 B.C.

Answer 19

Horned cattle

Question 20

The cultivation of ______ and ______ spread throughout the Middle East and eastward to India.

Answer 20

wheat and barley

Question 21

The americas had ______ and ______.

Answer 21

maize and sweet potato

Question 22

Asia had ______.

Answer 22

rice

Question 23

Europe had ______ and ______.

Answer 23

rye and oats

Question 24

Egypt had ______ and ______, such as flax and cotton used for clothing.

Answer 24

grain crops and fibers