topic 1: the origins of food

Question 1

Agratian

Answer 1

Agrarian means relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland or relates to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture

Question 2

BCE

Answer 2

before the common era

Question 3

CE

Answer 3

before christ

Question 4

Chinampas

Answer 4

Agricultural system is aset of artificial floating islands primarily in southern Mexico

Question 5

Cultivate

Answer 5

prepare and use land for crops

Question 6

Domestication

Answer 6

The process of using selective breeding to make plant and animals more useful to humans

Question 7

Food System

Answer 7

A complex series of activities involving food journey from the farms its movement to food processors then on to the food retailers and family on to the consumers plates at home or in a restaurant

Question 8

Foraging

Answer 8

gathering of wilds food to eat

Question 9

hunter-gatherer

Answer 9

The way of living that involves hunting wild animals and gathering plant and insects

Question 10

Nomad/nomadic

Answer 10

A group of family / people who travel, often with the change of seasons to avoid exhausting their food supply

Question 11

Swidden Farming

Answer 11

An agricultural technique that involved slashing and burning the plants in a forest to create fields for cropping

Question 12

Hunter gather

Answer 12

• All member of the society contributed to hunting and gather
• Small social group easier to travel
• Carried all possession with them as they moved fromplace to place
• Dependent on the natural/wild food available in the area
• Nomadic
• Obtained their food from nature hunting animals and gathering wild plants
• Egalitarian - equal share of resources

Question 13

Agrarian society

Answer 13

An agrarian society, or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agrarian society is by seeing how much of a nation’s total production is in agriculture

Question 14

Hunter gather Advantages

Answer 14

They also have food available because they move on when they food supplies in the area were exhausted

Question 15

Hunter gather challenges

Answer 15

The made simply shelters with whatever material was available in the new region

Question 16

Agrarian society advantages

Answer 16

The most obvious advantage to a society with agriculture is increased food security humans acquired greater control over their food supply and even managed to produce a food surplus for the first time. Agrarian societies also supported larger populations

Question 17

Agrarian society challenges

Answer 17

Despite the advantages it provided, agrarian culture also came with significant disadvantages. People in a hunter-gatherer society had access to a variety of food throughout the year, but those in early agrarian societies ofter had to survive off of monoculture crops that provided limited nutritional value

Question 18

Mesopotamia location

Answer 18

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

Question 19

Mesopotamia’s use of tools and Development of farming practices

Answer 19

Mesopotamia used ploughs consisting of a beam are which is a simple machine that scratched a furrow without turning the soil

Question 20

Mesopotamia Types of food produced

Answer 20

Mesopotamia learn how to grow and dry grains that could be ground into flour

Question 21

Mesoamerica location

Answer 21

Middle America, Mesoamerica extends from south-central Mexico southeastward

Question 22

Mesoamerica use of tools and development of farming practices

Answer 22

Mesoamerican farmers did not use heavy ploughs or horses to help them prepare the land but only sharp-bladed wooden digging sticks. Their ticks were called uictlii and were used for planting seeds and hoeing weeds

Question 23

Mesoamerica types of food produced

Answer 23

Wild plants cultivation and domestication of these plants allowed them to store surplus food for use when hunting was poor