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| 1 |  |  Agriculture requires all of the following practices except |
|  | A) | propagation. |
|  | B) | husbandry. |
|  | C) | consumption. |
|  | D) | storage and maintenance. |
|  | E) | harvesting. |
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| 2 |  |  The proposal that the earliest domesticates should appear where their wild ancestors lived is referred to as the |
|  | A) | natural habitat hypothesis. |
|  | B) | edge hypothesis. |
|  | C) | oasis hypothesis. |
|  | D) | population pressure hypothesis. |
|  | E) | social hypothesis. |
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| 3 |  |  ‘Ain Mallaha is located in present-day |
|  | A) | Turkey. |
|  | B) | Israel. |
|  | C) | Iraq. |
|  | D) | Greece. |
|  | E) | Egypt. |
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| 4 |  |  The earliest known domesticated cereal, rye, dates to |
|  | A) | 12,000 B.C. |
|  | B) | 11,000 B.C. |
|  | C) | 10,000 B.C. |
|  | D) | 9,000 B.C. |
|  | E) | 8,000 B.C. |
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During the Neolithic, the inhabitants of Jericho. |
|  | A) | engaged in human sacrifice. |
|  | B) | frequently engaged in war. |
|  | C) | produced many luxury items made of gold. |
|  | D) | were involved in long-distance trade. |
|  | E) | All of the above. |
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| 6 |  |  A study of the bones of gazelles, goats, and sheep at Abu Hureyra revealed that |
|  | A) | only goats were domesticated. |
|  | B) | goats and sheep were domesticated around 7,500 B.C. |
|  | C) | wild gazelles were transformed into domesticated goats. |
|  | D) | sheep were domesticated about 1,000 years prior to goats. |
|  | E) | (C) and (D) above. |
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| 7 |  |  Structures at Çatalhöyük were used for |
|  | A) | burials. |
|  | B) | households. |
|  | C) | shrines. |
|  | D) | storage. |
|  | E) | All of the above. |
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| 8 |  |  Mehrgarh is important because |
|  | A) | the site shows influences on later Indus Valley civilization. |
|  | B) | goats were domesticated at the site earlier than anywhere else in the world. |
|  | C) | the presence of wheat at early occupation levels was unexpected. |
|  | D) | the site established a link between burial rituals and grain harvests. |
|  | E) | clay used to make water vessels contained barley. |
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| 9 |  |  At Ban-po-ts’un, there |
|  | A) | was domesticated wheat imported from Southwest Asia. |
|  | B) | were no domesticated animals. |
|  | C) | was domesticated millet. |
|  | D) | All of the above. |
|  | E) | (A) and (B) above. |
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| 10 |  |  Studies at Guilá Naquitz Cave have revealed that |
|  | A) | corn was domesticated in Mexico by 8,000 B.C. |
|  | B) | the cave was occupied seasonally between August and December. |
|  | C) | venison provided the majority of calories for the site’s inhabitants. |
|  | D) | rabbits were domesticated by 8,000 B.C. |
|  | E) | the inhabitants did not have stone tool technology. |
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| 11 |  |  Analysis of the sequence in the Tehuacán Valley revealed that |
|  | A) | domestication occurred in just a few centuries. |
|  | B) | large, sedentary villages appeared thousands of years prior to the adoption of agriculture. |
|  | C) | domestication of dogs took place much earlier in Mesoamerica than anywhere else in the world. |
|  | D) | attempts to domesticate deer failed. |
|  | E) | None of the above. |
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| 12 |  |  According to this chart, reliance on wild plants peaked around
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|  | A) | 6,000 B.C. |
|  | B) | 4,000 B.C. |
|  | C) | 2,000 B.C. |
|  | D) | A.D. 1. |
|  | E) | A.D. 1,000. |
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