Quiz 5

A  a warming climate and the retreat of glacial ice sheets

B  beginning of cave art

C  change from stone to metal tools

D  universal abandonment of hunting and gathering

A  During the Natufian period

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

C  At the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution.

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

B  The area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China

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

D  The area along the Indus River in Pakistan

E  The area between Quito and Lima

A  3500 BC

B  500 BC

C  2000 BC

D  7000 BC

A  hunting and gathering

B  intensified farming

C  simple farming

D  nomadic pastoralism

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

C  broad spectrum foraging was a precondition for domestication

A  Rice

B  Potato

C  Sweet potato

D  Manioc

E  Beans

A  Food foragers work harder to survive

B  Food foragers are more likely to experience massive famine.

C  Farmers have a more secure supply of food.

D  Late Pleistocene foragers enjoyed better health than early farmers

E  Farmers eat choicer foods and a more varied diet.

A  scavenging from the kills of other predators

B  cultivating beans and maize

C  hunting elephants and other big game

D  hunting, fishing, and gathering

E  herding cattle

A  3900 BC

B  3500 BC

C  7000 BC

D  15000 BC