Unit 12 : Agriculture and the First Civilizations quiz

Question 1

The earliest plant crops in China were _______

Answer 1

• Millet

Question 2

Pollen is an example of what type of archaeobotanical remains?

Answer 2

• Microfossil

Question 3

Maize is far from an ideal crop because of:

Answer 3

• An increase in a chemical leading to iron deficiency

Question 4

Which important Mayan innovation predated its appearance in the Old World?

Answer 4

• the concept of zero in mathematics

Question 5

Plant domestication provided the subsistence base for:

Answer 5

• Sedentarism

Question 6

Which of the following explanations may account for the urbanization of the Indus Valley?
A) periods of drought years

B) increased warfare

C) increased threat of flooding

D) the development of increasingly productive agricultural practices

E) unification under a single ruler

Answer 6

• increased threat of flooding

Question 7

A cultigen is defined as

Answer 7

• a domesticated plant under human control

Question 8

The legendary Xia dynasty, proclaimed in myth as the dawn of the Chinese civilization, may be evidenced in the increased complexity of Erlitou at around

Answer 8

• 3,900 years to 3,600 years ago

Question 9

The Olmec culture was located primarily

Answer 9

• along the gulf coast of mexico

Question 10

The Neolithic Revolution is associated with:

Answer 10

• the development of agriculture