ASB 222 Exam #2 Questions with Correct Answers
Question 1:
Abu Hureyra
Population: 2-3,000 people; active trading between populace
Answer:
Neolithic farming village.
Question 2:
A. In 8500
B. C, they Domesticated plants, and by 7,000
Answer:
Any activity that artificially increases crop yields.
Question 3:
Animism
Answer:
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits
Question 4:
Big Men
Answer:
Early societal leaders that won their place in the hierarchical system through wisdom, physical
dominance or some other dominant trait
Question 5:
carrying capacity
Answer:
The largest population that an area can support naturally.
Question 6:
Catal Huyuk
, Answer:
One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which
were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions
Question 7:
Cemeteries
Answer:
earliest done in sedentary societies. It is representative of early human's
beginning emphasis on burials, death rights, and the stratification of different burials of that
era, showing a class system existed.
Question 8:
Conscious selection
Answer:
selectively choosing plants and animals with the best traits to continue producing better crops.
Question 9:
domestication
Answer:
Modify the genetic makeup of a plant or animal so that it cannot exist without human
assistance.
Question 10:
Fertile crescent
Answer:
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the
Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. Where agriculture first began.
Question 11:
Great leap forward
Answer:
40,000 years ago. sudden emergence of language, culture, etc. among early humans.
Question 1:
Abu Hureyra
Population: 2-3,000 people; active trading between populace
Answer:
Neolithic farming village.
Question 2:
A. In 8500
B. C, they Domesticated plants, and by 7,000
Answer:
Any activity that artificially increases crop yields.
Question 3:
Animism
Answer:
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits
Question 4:
Big Men
Answer:
Early societal leaders that won their place in the hierarchical system through wisdom, physical
dominance or some other dominant trait
Question 5:
carrying capacity
Answer:
The largest population that an area can support naturally.
Question 6:
Catal Huyuk
, Answer:
One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which
were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions
Question 7:
Cemeteries
Answer:
earliest done in sedentary societies. It is representative of early human's
beginning emphasis on burials, death rights, and the stratification of different burials of that
era, showing a class system existed.
Question 8:
Conscious selection
Answer:
selectively choosing plants and animals with the best traits to continue producing better crops.
Question 9:
domestication
Answer:
Modify the genetic makeup of a plant or animal so that it cannot exist without human
assistance.
Question 10:
Fertile crescent
Answer:
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the
Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. Where agriculture first began.
Question 11:
Great leap forward
Answer:
40,000 years ago. sudden emergence of language, culture, etc. among early humans.
