Deck 1: C: First Peoples; First Farmers Most of History in a Single Chapter to 4000 B.C.E

Question 1

Which factor contributed to the Agricultural Revolution?

A) A sharp decline in population
B) An increase in the number of large mammals
C) A need for additional food
D) The rise of chiefdoms

Answer 1

A need for additional food

Question 2

Which of the following is true of both the Paleolithic era and Age of Agriculture?

A) The prevalence of female imagery
B) The power of priests
C) The modification of the genetic composition of plants
D) The spread of permanent settlements

Answer 2

The prevalence of female imagery

Question 3

Which of the following was the point of departure for migration to the Americas?

A) New Guinea
B) Eastern Siberia
C) Aotearoa
D) Easter Island

Answer 3

Eastern Siberia

Question 4

Which of the following explains why some regions did not make the transition to an agricultural way of life?

A) There were not enough people to do all the work involved with farming.
B) Farming was considered socially demeaning.
C) Knowledge about farming did not spread beyond the core areas where the Agricultural Revolution had taken place.
D) Environmental conditions were not suitable for farming.

Question 5

The Agricultural Revolution occurred independently in various parts of the world between

A) 300,000 and 250,000 years ago.
B) 100,000 and 60,000 years ago.
C) 45,000 and 30,000 years ago.
D) 12,000 and 4,000 years ago.

Question 6

Which of the following offers evidence that Paleolithic peoples were shifting from a nomadic way of life to a more settled lifestyle?

A) Extinction of large mammals
B) Increase in the size of tools
C) Elaborate burial sites
D) Global warming

Question 7

How did the last Ice Age affect Paleolithic people?

A) Ice served as an important preservative for food,making it possible for them to settle in the same place for extended periods.
B) The cold weather killed off most large mammals that had preyed on early human beings.
C) As the glaciers advanced,humans could easily move into new regions because humankind had originated in cold climates.
D) The lower sea levels associated with the Ice Age created land bridges,allowing human beings to travel to many regions of the earth.

Question 8

Which of the following distinguished the Agricultural Revolution in the Americas from the Agricultural Revolution elsewhere?

A) The scarcity of animals that could be domesticated
B) A common climatic and vegetation zone
C) High agricultural yields and population density
D) Uniformity of farming practices and techniques

Question 9

What role did women play in agricultural village societies?

A) Women led important rituals and ceremonies.
B) Women rode horses and fought in battles.
C) Women participated in farming and textile work.
D) Women organized irrigation systems and controlled trade.

Question 10

What was the result of the spread of agriculture through diffusion and migration?

A) The spread of language groups
B) The creation of gathering and hunting societies
C) The strengthening of maritime empires
D) The extinction of pastoral societies

Question 11

What did migrants to Australia and the Pacific Islands use to get to their destinations?

A) Clovis points
B) Mammoths
C) Land bridges
D) Boats

Question 12

Which of the following describes both pastoral and agricultural village societies?

A) Both were made up of mobile populations that moved frequently.
B) Both were made up of bands of twenty-five to fifty people.
C) Both possessed relatively egalitarian social structures with few social distinctions.
D) Both possessed permanent settlements near the sea.

Question 13

Which of the following was a result of the Agricultural Revolution?

A) The initial human settlement of the earth
B) The invention of the plow
C) Higher risk of disease and famine
D) The decline of trade

Question 14

Which describes a religious or spiritual aspect of Paleolithic culture?

A) An outlook that sharply distinguished between the material and spiritual worlds
B) A single belief system based on monotheism and animism
C) A cyclical view of time that emphasized regeneration and disintegration
D) The worship of masculinity,as reflected in universally male images and statues

Question 15

In contrast to the people who migrated to the Americas,the Austronesian migrants to the Pacific islands

A) brought domesticated plants and animals with them.
B) crossed the Bering Strait.
C) returned to their places of origin every year.
D) left their new environments mostly unchanged.

Question 16

Which of the following represents a way that Paleolithic humans shaped their environment?

A) They deliberately set fires to encourage the growth of particular plants.
B) They regulated their hunting to avoid the extinction of various large animals.
C) They drove wild animals into new regions to increase their numbers.
D) They regulated the human population to avoid overtaxing the environment.

Question 17

What was a feature of society during the Paleolithic era?

A) High population density
B) Relative egalitarianism
C) Class conflict
D) Widespread slavery

Question 18

Which of the following describes a feature of chiefdoms?

A) The use of force to ensure obedience from subjects
B) The absence of centralized authority
C) The collection of tribute from commoners
D) The separation of religious and secular power

Question 19

How did the north/south orientation of the Americas affect the unfolding of the Agricultural Revolution in that part of the world?

A) Farmers in the Americas developed no grain crop that could sustain large populations.
B) The successful domestication of large mammals by people in the Americas made crop domestication less important.
C) Crops were slow to spread because they had to adapt to different climactic and vegetation zones.
D) Agricultural innovations developed first in Mesoamerica and then spread north and south.

Question 20

Which of the following was an important development during the Paleolithic period?

A) Humankind created the first alphabet.
B) Humankind migrated to different parts of the world.
C) Humankind established the first civilizations.
D) Humankind developed ironworking technologies.

Question 21

Which of the following describes a development associated with the migration of Austronesian-speaking peoples throughout the Pacific?

A) The dependence on ice bridges to reach their destinations
B) The emergence of chiefdoms in the regions where they settled
C) The preservation of the ecosystem and natural habitats
D) The egalitarianism of the societies that emerged

Question 22

Which of the following is the earliest evidence that gathering and hunting peoples were starting to make the transition to agriculture?

A) Maize
B) Sickles
C) Canoes
D) Milk

Question 23

Which of the following explains why conflict was frequent between pastoral societies and agricultural societies?

A) Pastoral societies wanted the food crops and manufactured goods produced by agricultural societies.
B) Agricultural societies domesticated animals,but pastoral societies domesticated plants.
C) Agricultural societies sought access to the richer grazing lands controlled by pastoral societies.
D) The animals herded by pastoral societies could be found only in land controlled by agricultural societies.

Question 24

Which of the following is used as evidence that the earliest humans first emerged in Africa?

A) Cave paintings
B) Domestication of plants
C) Processing of ochre
D) Shrine-like buildings

Question 25

Which of the following describes a feature of pastoral societies?

A) Village-based horticulture
B) Animal husbandry
C) Intensification of land use
D) Oppression of women

Question 26

What common feature did pastoral and agricultural societies share?

A) Organization of society based on kinship
B) Systems of labor based on slavery
C) Preference for male children
D) Inherited positions of power and privilege

Question 27

Which form of society during the Age of Agriculture is considered to have a distinct element of inequality?

A) Paleolithic societies
B) Pastoral societies
C) Gathering and hunting societies
D) Chiefdoms

Question 28

What is another name for the Agricultural Revolution?

A) Fertile Crescent
B) Neolithic Revolution
C) "Secondary products revolution"
D) Mesoamerica

Question 29

The Clovis culture of North America provides evidence of

A) the beginning of the last Ice Age.
B) warfare between rival tribes.
C) cultural diffusion over a large area.
D) the domestication of animals.

Question 30

Humans in the Paleolithic era already had the knowledge to do which of the following?

A) Make pottery
B) Harvest wool
C) Ride horses
D) Make wine