Exam 11: The Earliest Farmers

The best-known early European farming culture, which is named after its distinctive line-decorated pottery, is the

The Diaotonghuan and Xianrendong caves in the lower Yangtse valley in China document rice cultivation by about

How many years did it take after the retreat of the Scandinavian ice sheet before forests covered much of Europe?

Which of these was a widespread farming culture in the Huang Ho valley of northern China after 5000 B.C.?

Agriculture in which farmers clear land by burning off native vegetation, plant crops, and then move on to new plots when the land loses its fertility after several years is called

The earliest known farmers in the world lived in

Some 15,000 years ago, the great ice sheets began to retreat, ushering in postglacial times that are often called the

Agriculture was not "invented" by a single society; its importance lies in the fact that agriculture was

Wild cereal grasses were important in the human diet from at least

Discuss evidence to suggest that Vere Gordon Childe's idea of an agricultural revolution is too simplistic.

Explain why Melanesia and Polynesia in the Pacific were relatively late to be settled. What technological advances were necessary before these areas could be settled? How did this late arrival likely affect eventual agriculture?

According to one authority, what percentage of African soil is moderately fertile enough to support gardens?

Which technology of the last 50 years revolutionized the chronology and study of early food production?

The rise of agriculture led to which of the following?

Canoes voyaged from island to island bringing plants and domesticated animals of their homelands with them, reaching Hawaii around

Briefly explain how agriculture spread around the world. Describe the major consequences of this development immediately after.

Food production is a phenomenon of

One of the earliest plants to be domesticated in the northern parts of Southeast Asia and southern China was

All of the following were general conditions necessary for a complex forager society to develop EXCEPT

In 10,000 B.C. nearly everyone in the world lived by hunting and gathering. By when did most people become farmers or herders?