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The term "Neolithic Revolution" describes |
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the origin of food production |
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Plant cultivation and domesitcation of animals started |
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What is the relationship of plant cultivation and sedentism in middle east? |
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Sedentism preceded plant cultivation |
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For which region do we have the earliest evidence of food production? |
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Archaeological evidence from the middle east shows that people began to lead sedentary lives |
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after they began to depend on harvest of wild grain |
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Where did the first farmers livers? |
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food production was independently invented in all but |
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what statement about leisure time is true? |
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leisure time does not increase as the complexity civilization increases |
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which species is associated with Mesoamerica, where it was probably first domesticated? |
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the first civilization arose at about what date? |
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States are generally characterized by all of the following except |
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When did states in mesoamerica originate? |
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independently of states in Mesopotamia but later |
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which feature does not describe a state |
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it is usually egalitarian |
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when did food production arise? |
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in the area between the tigris and euphrates rivers, in present-day Iraq and Iran |
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Who were the people who lived around 11,000 b.p. and who first settled Jericho? |
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the earliest writing discovered in Mesopotamia is called |
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the anthropologists R.L. caneiro proposed a theory for state formation that includes which factors? |
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environmental circumscription, increasing population, and warfare |
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In which type of society do people generally work for the fewest hours per day? |
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hunter-gatherer societies |
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Egalitarian societies are most likeley to be found among |
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