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Chapter 10 Stack j72
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ________ was characterized by the transition from a foraging economy to one based on food production. | Neolithic |
| What is distinctive in Southeast Asia was the domestication of root crops, such as yams and yaro. Root crop farming, or ________, typically involves the growing of many different species together in a single field. | vegeculture |
| Sixty percent of the crops grown in the world today were invented by ________, who not only remain the developers of the world's largest array of nutritious foods, but are also the primary contributors to the world's varied cuisines. | America's indigenous peoples |
| The change to food production also took place in South America where there was a greater emphasis on root crops, the best known being the: | potato. |
| As mentioned in your textbook, modern agriculturalists rely on a mere dozen species for about ________% of the world's annual tonnage of all crops. | 80 |
| For the first time in human history, clothing was made of woven textiles during the: | Neolithic. |
| Close contact with the farmers in Jericho and other villages is indicated in the common features found in: | art. b. use of ritual goods. c. burial practices. d. ritual. |
| To protect against ________, the people of Jericho surrounded their settlement with massive walls of stone, 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide and 4 meters (12 feet) high, behind a large rock cut ditch, 8 meters (27 feet) wide and 2 3/4 meters (9 feet) deep. | floods c. human invaders d. mud flows |
| What was distinctive in Southeast Asia was the domestication of root crops, most notably: | yams and taro. |
| About 12,000 years ago ________, changes that affected the productivity of hunting for food. | glaciers melted and the sea levels rose |
| Food foragers do not have to work as hard as farmers to survive. | True |
| The development of Mesolithic cultures accompanied the ending of the ice ages. | True |
| The Mesolithic tool kit contained the characteristic hand ax. | False |
| The transition to relatively complete reliance on domesticated plants and animals took several thousand years to accomplish. | True |
| The Neolithic revolution was a result of innovation, the ultimate source of all cultural change. | True |
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