True/False Indicate whether the
statement is true or false.
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Food foragers do not work as hard as farmers to survive.
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Domestication of plants and animals took place in only one part of the world and
then spread from there to other parts of the world.
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All of the crops grown by Iroquoians are native to Ontario.
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4.
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The presence of stone walls surrounding mud brick houses in which lived some
400-900 people indicates that Jericho was a Neolithic settlement.
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5.
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Domesticated animals cannot be distinguished from their wild
counterparts.
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6.
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The Huron, Neutral and Petun are Iroquoian peoples in Ontario who had an
agricultural way of life.
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7.
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Transhumance is a highly ineffective method of food production.
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8.
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In Ontario, the Princess Point culture comes after the Iroquoian culture.
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9.
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Food foragers remain as foragers because they do not understand the basic
principles behind agriculture.
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10.
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Iroquoian villages tend to be found on floodplains.
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Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The term "Neolithic" means
a. | New Lithium Age. | b. | Modern Age. | c. | Middle Stone
Age. | d. | Old Stone Age. | e. | New Stone Age. |
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The Neolithic grew out of the Mesolithic about _____ years ago.
a. | 40,000 | b. | 125,000 | c. | 70,000 | d. | 11,000 | e. | 200,000 |
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The __________ is the characteristic Mesolithic tool.
a. | microlith | b. | scraper | c. | chopper | d. | burin | e. | atlatl |
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Choose the statement that is INCORRECT about agricultural origins in
Ontario.
a. | the Iroquoian people depended entirely on agriculture. | b. | crops included corn,
beans, tobacco, squash, sunflower. | c. | they often had enough surplus to last several
years. | d. | sites were occupied for 10 to 20 years at a time. | e. | produce was traded
with northern hunter gatherer groups. |
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The change from a soft to a hard stem in early domesticated plants involves a
genetic change, a result of what we call _____________, or the preservation of valued
variants.
a. | domestication | b. | speciation | c. | unconscious
selection | d. | vegeculture | e. | natural
selection |
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Championed by V. Gordon Childe, the __________ holds that people in Africa and
Southwest Asia were forced to rely on collecting wild grasses and seeds, and then had to turn to
domestication to provide food for their growing populations
a. | the desiccation theory | b. | the theory of population
growth | c. | the warfare theory | d. | the alliance theory | e. | the oasis
theory |
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The change from hunter gatherer to agriculture occurred in Ontario
________________.
a. | after A.D. 1300. | b. | after contact with
Europeans. | c. | sometime between A.D. 400 and A.D. 1100. | d. | around A.D.
150. | e. | 1000 B.C.E. |
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The shift from food foraging to domestication of plants and animals
a. | always results in improvement of food supplies. | b. | is the result of a
few leaders making intelligent decisions. | c. | can be done within a single growing
season. | d. | often has long-term consequences that cannot be predicted. | e. | is always done
consciously. |
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Domestication of plants and animals is more likely to take place in
__________
a. | environmentally diverse regions. | b. | forests. | c. | oases. | d. | temperate zones. | e. | open
savanna. |
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10.
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Barley from Southwest Asia had tougher stems by 9,000 years ago, less husk by
8,000 years ago, and more seeds by 7,500 years ago. This means that
a. | humans were colonizing the tundra. | b. | barley was degenerating. | c. | barley was becoming
domesticated. | d. | food foraging was more successful than farming. | e. | rice was being
introduced from China. |
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The __________ was an Archaic cultures of northeastern North America, centered
on the Gulf of St. Lawrence
a. | Natufian culture | b. | Peruvian culture | c. | Maritime Archaic
culture | d. | Mesolithic culture | e. | Mexican culture |
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Vegeculture is _________
a. | all of these choices | b. | thought to be a more stable mode of cultivation
than seed crop cultivation because many different species are grown in a single
field. | c. | found in Ecuador and Mexico. | d. | none of these choices | e. | root crop
farming. |
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Between 9,000 and 3,500 years ago, maize, beans, and squash were cultivated in
an environmentally diverse valley in
a. | Southeast Asia. | b. | Mexico. | c. | northern
China. | d. | Europe. | e. | Southwest Asia. |
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Approximately 60% of the crops grown today were first domesticated in
__________
a. | Southeast Asia. | b. | the Americas. | c. | Australia. | d. | Southwest Asia. | e. | Western
Europe. |
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The _________ is what anthropologist Sidney Mintz calls the phenomena that in
all cases, people developed the same categories of foods: a starch accompanied by one or more grain
and bean staple.
a. | Neolithic revolution | b. | hypoplasia effect | c. | core-fringe-legume
pattern | d. | domestication cycle | e. | agricultural
revolution |
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What was the effect of the Natufian's use of sickles to harvest
grain?
a. | New plant varieties were introduced to compliment those already
grown. | b. | Crop production dwindled as grain was lost during the harvesting
process. | c. | They began to switch to animal domestication, and then became full-time
pastoralists | d. | Selection for plants which did not readily lose their seeds was
increased. | e. | They began to switch to animal domestication, and then became full-time pastoralists
and new plant varieties were introduced to compliment those already
grown. |
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The Curator of Ontario Archaeology at the Museum of Civilization is
_________________. He has worked in the Eastern, Central and Western Subarctic and the Lower
Mackenzie Valley.
a. | V. Gordon Childe | b. | Sidney Mintz | c. | Knut
Fladmark | d. | Jean-Luc Pilon | e. | Robert
Braidwood |
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In southeastern Turkey there was an increase in pig bones in human trash,
coupled with a heavy bias in favour of a very young animals is indicative of a taste for suckling
pigs and the beginning of stock management by _____________ years ago.
a. | 20,400 | b. | 10,500 | c. | 200,000 | d. | 50,000 | e. | 150,000 |
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Comparison of wild and archaeological sunflower seeds from an archaeological
site in Ontario __________________.
a. | showed that many different species of sunflowers were being
harvested. | b. | showed no differences. | c. | showed that the Iroquois were collecting wild
seeds. | d. | indicated that the useful parts of domesticated plants are much larger than their
wild counterparts. | e. | none of these
choices. |
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In China, domestication of ___________ was underway along the middle Yangtze
River, by about 11,000 years ago.
a. | legumes | b. | rice | c. | potatoes | d. | grain | e. | maize |
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While rice is the oldest domesticated plant identified in Southeast Asia,
__________ were also domesticated at about the same time.
a. | sweet potatoes and taro | b. | taro and yams | c. | yams and
fungi | d. | corn and beans | e. | squash and
potatoes |
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Vegeculture is the cultivation of domesticated ___________.
a. | seeds | b. | root crops | c. | legumes | d. | none of these choices | e. | cuttings |
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The earliest full-fledged farming settlements are found in Southwest Asia and
mostly date between __________ years ago.
a. | 20,000 and 17,000 | b. | 4,500 and 3,100 | c. | 5,550 and
4,000 | d. | 9,000 and 7,500 | e. | 10,300 and
9,000 |
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In addition to the domestication of plants and animals, one of the
characteristics of the Neolithic period is the extensive manufacture and use of __________.
a. | fire | b. | pottery | c. | art | d. | boats | e. | animal skin
housing |
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Study of plant remains collected by flotation has shown the Iroquois
________.
a. | used both domesticated and wild plants. | b. | unintentionally
increased game populations as a result of agriculture. | c. | grew sunflowers for their
seeds. | d. | all of these choices. | e. | none of these
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Matching
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Match the mode of subsistence to its definition. a. | cultivation of root crops | b. | herding | c. | moving seasonally
from one area to another | d. | gardening without use of irrigation or
plough | e. | growing extensive crops with use of irrigation or
plough |
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1.
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agriculture
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2.
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horticulture
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3.
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vegeculture
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4.
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transhumance
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5.
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pastoralism
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Match the site/term/concept. a. | matrilineal agriculturalists in
Ontario | b. | Cultural group immediately preceding Iroquoian | c. | the process of
humans modifying their environment | d. | Epipaleolithic tool | e. | an example of a
Epipaleolithic culture from the Mediterranean |
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6.
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Princess Point
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7.
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microlith
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8.
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Natufian
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9.
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Iroquoian
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10.
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Anthropogenesis
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