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Lesson 6
Mizzou online "Anthropology"
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
06/12/2013

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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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in the steppe grassland
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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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the middle east
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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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in the piedmont steppe
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food production was independently invented in all but
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northern europe
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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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maize
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the first civilization arose at about what date?
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5,500 B.P.
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States are generally characterized by all of the following except
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a healthier population
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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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10,000 b.p.
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Where is Mesopotamia?
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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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Natufians
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the earliest writing discovered in Mesopotamia is called
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cuneiform
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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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foragers
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