What is the name of the area in mesopatamia that is known for its rich soil and marshlands/rivers?
The Fertile Cresent
100
What was the name of the taming and adapting of plants and animals practiced in the americas?
Domestication
100
What is a major crop that comes from China and was cultivated around 6500 B.C.E.?
Rice
100
What are the first plants the people of New Guinea domesticated?
Taro, bananas, yams, and sugarcane
100
Who were the gatherers of the hunter- gatherer tribes in africa?
Women
200
What was the prosperous crop grown in Mesoamerica also known as teosinte?
Maize or corn
200
What are the three Ameridian civilizations in the Americas that contributed to great agricultural advances?
The Incas, the Mayans, and the Aztecs
200
In the most recent century, what were richer Chinese peasants called by the Soviets?
Kulaks
200
How many groups practiced the hunting and gathering way of life in the fifteenth century in australia?
250
200
What is the name of the ancient edible food from West Africa used today to flavor Coca-cola and Pepsi?
The kola nut
300
What is the name of one of the eariest agricultural villages in Mesoamerica which had no streets and it's people moved around the village atop the roofs of the houses?
Catalhuyuk
300
Which Ameridian civilization in the Americas designed floating gardens to help grow plants in their swampy region?
The Aztec civilization
300
During the Song dynasty who planted, plowed, ang threshed grain in China?
Chinese peasants
300
What is it called when the Australians practice patterns of deliberitly burning fires and it is also refered as cleaning up the country?
Firestick farming
300
What is the name of the civilization in southeren Africa affected by the arrival of the Bantu-speaking peoples, the people of this civilization were given agriculture, domesticated animals, and iron tools from the Bantu?
The San
400
What is the first animal to be domesticated in Mesoamerica between 3000-2000 B.C.E.?
The turkey
400
What is the first animal to be domesticated in the americas?
Llama
400
What animals were domesticated in China between 6500-6000 B.C.E.?
Pigs, chickens, and water buffalos
400
What civilization used outrigger canoes, fish hooks, complex netting techniques, artistic styles,rituals, and mythological ideas?
New Guinea
400
What African civilization suffered from environmental changes such as soil exhaustion, erosion, and deforestation; It is also known for its conversion to Christianity by king Ezana?
Axum
500
What are the first domesticated plants in Mesoamerica between 3000-2000 B.C.E?
Maize, Squash, and Beans
500
What people hunted along rivers, springs, and waterholes where large animals congrigated; they were known to hunt large animals such as mammoths (this is around 1200-1100 years ago)?
Clovis
500
What is the name of the major ancient chinese agricultural village that domesticated millet, dogs, pigs, it houses about 500 people, houses are made of wooden boards with thatch laid overthe top, and they make their own pottery?
Banpo
500
What is the rock art in Australian caves called?
Aboriginal
500
What was domesticated between 8000 B.C.E. in Saharan ans Sub-Saharan africa?