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Carrying capacity refers to |
| | A) | the amount that a single hunter-gatherer can carry in a single day |
| | B) | the maximum population that an environment can support with a given technology |
| | C) | the ability of hunter-gatherers to domesticate plants and animals |
| | D) | the capacity of an environment to withstand climatic changes |
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Which of the following factors may have played a role in the initial adoption of agriculture? |
| | A) | climatic changes |
| | B) | population growth |
| | C) | technological changes |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Compared to hunting and gathering, farming provides |
| | A) | a higher yield per acre |
| | B) | an easier, less labor-intensive lifestyle |
| | C) | a more diverse diet |
| | D) | all of the above |
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4 | |
Childe termed the beginnings of farming the Neolithic revolution on analogy with |
| | A) | the urban revolution |
| | B) | the industrial revolution |
| | C) | the French Revolution |
| | D) | the American Revolution |
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Early Near Eastern domesticates include |
| | A) | emmer wheat and barley |
| | B) | maize and beans |
| | C) | water buffalo and rice |
| | D) | sumpweed and goosefoot |
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The oasis theory suggests that |
| | A) | plants and animals were originally domesticated in Egypt |
| | B) | climatic changes at the end of the Ice Age led to increased precipitation in the Near East |
| | C) | climatic changes at the end of the Ice Age led to decreased precipitation, forcing humans, plants, and animals into well-watered oases |
| | D) | population growth at the end of the Ice Age led to the beginnings of farming |
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Modern climatic studies show that |
| | A) | the Mediterranean vegetation zone began to expand in the Near East about 14,000 years ago |
| | B) | the oasis theory was correct |
| | C) | steppe and desert vegetation expanded around 14,000 years ago |
| | D) | there is no evidence for the Younger Dryas event |
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The Hilly Flanks |
| | A) | include the foothills of the Zagros and Taurus Mountains |
| | B) | are the homelands to the wild ancestors of sheep, goat, wheat, and barley |
| | C) | is a term that was first defined by Robert Braidwood |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Which of the following is not used to reconstruct the climatic history of the late Pleistocene Near East? |
| | A) | pollen analysis |
| | B) | studies of small mammals recovered from archaeological sites |
| | C) | lithic refitting |
| | D) | geological analyses |
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Braidwood's excavations at Jarmo uncovered |
| | A) | a hunter-gatherer encampment |
| | B) | evidence of plant domestication but no animal domestication |
| | C) | evidence for animal domestication but no domesticated cereals |
| | D) | a village with both domesticated plants and domesticated animals |
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Nathan Cohen suggested that at the end of the Pleistocene humans |
| | A) | faced a food crisis |
| | B) | began to make use of more labor-intensive foods such as fish, shellfish, and wild seeds |
| | C) | began to domesticate plants and animals |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Recent research in the Neat East has shown that |
| | A) | plant domestication preceded animal domestication |
| | B) | animal domestication preceded plant domestication |
| | C) | plant and animal domestication took place at about the same time |
| | D) | plant and animal domestication did not take place until the Middle Holocene |
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When plants and animals are first domesticated |
| | A) | they invariable become larger |
| | B) | their reproduction comes under human control |
| | C) | human populations decline sharply |
| | D) | all of the above |
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