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HIST 160 Exam 1
Terms from week 1-5 on Food and Power in Global History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| artificial selection | -direct and intentional redefinition of wild plants by ancient people of Mesoamerica -> 1000 year process |
| canis familiaris | -domesticated in Artic & Northern Hemisphere -c.a. 25k-10k ya -co-evolution of humans and dogs throughout history Why: hunting, protection, cuteness |
| caviar | |
| clean and unclean animals | |
| Clemens of Alexandria | |
| co-evolutionary domestication | |
| consequences of domestication | |
| domestic dependent | -relies on human intervention -special relationship b/w plant and person |
| domestication | an evolutionary process by which animals are artificially selected and undergo huge phenotype, behavioral, and physiological alterations |
| early agricultural systems | |
| Eid al-Adha | |
| endocannibalism | |
| Enki and Inanna | |
| entomophagy | |
| exocannibalism | |
| feasting | -ritualized public consumption of elaborate/specialized meals often accompanied by entertainment - |
| The Fertile Crescent | -center of agriculture -earliest state-level settlements -hierarchical -specialized labor -economic hubs -ritual & religious |
| Festival of the Field of the Cloth of Gold | |
| fire | |
| foraging | |
| founding crops | -wheat -rice -maize |
| globalization | |
| Gobekli Tepe | -c.a. 10k-8k ya - monumental ritual cite -agricultural center |
| Halal | |
| Haram | |
| health and domestication | |
| Herodotus | |
| hominids | |
| Islamic culture | |
| kuru | |
| natural selection | -Process to ensure that wild organisms will survive in the environment -Variations in traits randomly occurs in population -Organisms best adapted to survive the environment -Survivors have offspring and pass on desirable traits to offspring |
| New Fire Ceremony | |
| Red Heifer Sacrifice | |
| ritual | |
| sacrifice | ritual offering of possessions on behalf of an individual or group |
| taboos | |
| Thanks Offering | |
| Triticum monococcum | |
| Turcicum Frumentum | |
| Teosinte | -multi-floral, multi-stalk -hard, thorny, hardly inedible -different genus & species than maize -Rio Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico -Rio Panama, Panama |
| Three Sisters | -maize -beans -squash -symbiotic agriculture |
| women and domestication | |
| Zevah shelamin |
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