Question 1

The domestication of plants and animals for food independently occurred in both the Old World and the Americas approximately 11,000 years ago.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Agricultural intensification enabled people to farm for only part of the year, then leave the cities to live away from the problems endemic to urban populations for the rest of the year.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT one of the areas where food production was independently invented?

Accepted Answer

A)  the eastern United States 
B)  the Indus Valley 
C)  the Middle East 
D)  Mesoamerica 
E)  southern China 
A)  the eastern United States 
B)  the Indus Valley 
C)  the Middle East 
D)  Mesoamerica 
E)  southern China

Question 4

Where do scholars believe that food production first began in the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

A)  marginal zones 
B)  alluvial desert 
C)  hilly flanks 
D)  desert oases 
E)  high plateau 
A)  marginal zones 
B)  alluvial desert 
C)  hilly flanks 
D)  desert oases 
E)  high plateau

Question 5

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a subsistence economy based on farming?

Accepted Answer

Advantages of a subsistence economy base

Question 6

What is a vertical economy?

Accepted Answer

A)  a system of top-down exchange across regions 
B)  a system that exploits environmental zones that contrast with one another in altitude, rainfall, overall climate, and vegetation 
C)  one of the types of segmentary lineage organization that is found in regions of East Africa 
D)  a means of integrating a society based on hereditary inequality and coercion 
E)  a form of indirect-biased transmission 
A)  a system of top-down exchange across regions 
B)  a system that exploits environmental zones that contrast with one another in altitude, rainfall, overall climate, and vegetation 
C)  one of the types of segmentary lineage organization that is found in regions of East Africa 
D)  a means of integrating a society based on hereditary inequality and coercion 
E)  a form of indirect-biased transmission

The domestication of plants and animals for food independently occurred in both the Old World and the Americas approximately 11,000 years ago.

Agricultural intensification enabled people to farm for only part of the year, then leave the cities to live away from the problems endemic to urban populations for the rest of the year.

Which of the following is NOT one of the areas where food production was independently invented?

Where do scholars believe that food production first began in the Middle East?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a subsistence economy based on farming?

What is a vertical economy?

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Exam 11: The First Farmers

The domestication of plants and animals for food independently occurred in both the Old World and the Americas approximately 11,000 years ago.

Agricultural intensification enabled people to farm for only part of the year, then leave the cities to live away from the problems endemic to urban populations for the rest of the year.

Which of the following is NOT one of the areas where food production was independently invented?

Where do scholars believe that food production first began in the Middle East?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a subsistence economy based on farming?

What is a vertical economy?

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Applying Anthropology

Doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

Evolution and Genetics

Human Variation and Adaptation

The Primates

Early Hominins

Archaic Homo

The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans

The First Cities and States

Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Language and Communication

Ethnicity and Race

Making a Living

Political Systems

Gender

Families, Kinship, and Descent

Marriage

Religion

Arts, Media, and Sports

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters