Quiz 5

A  change from stone to metal tools

B  a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets

C  beginning of cave art

D  universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

A  At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.

B  During the Natufian period

C  in order to facilitate the recording of economic transactions such as trade and tribute collection

A  The area between Quito and Lima

B  The area between the Rio Suchiate and the Rio Naranjo in Guatemala

C  The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and southwestern Iran

D  The area along the Indus River in Pakistan

E  The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China

A  500 BC

B  2000 BC

C  7000 BC

D  3500 BC

A  hunting and gathering

B  nomadic pastoralism

C  simple farming

D  intensified farming

A  climatic changes at the end of the last Ice Age created conditions of adaptive stress to which the development of food production was a response

B  broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication

C  domestication was first developed in the Near East and spread by diffusion from there to the rest of the world

A  Potato

B  Beans

C  Manioc

D  Rice

E  Sweet potato

A  Farmers have a more secure supply of food.

B  Food foragers work harder to survive

C  Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.

D  Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers

E  Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.

A  scavenging from the kills of other predators

B  hunting elephants and other big game

C  cultivating beans and maize

D  herding cattle

E  hunting, fishing, and gathering

A  7000 BC

B  3900 BC

C  15000 BC

D  3500 BC