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225252183Women played a major role in the trasition to crop cultivation becausethey were the primary gatherers of wild plant foods0
225252184swidden agriculture is a term that describesa practice of shifting cultivation to new fields1
225252185The earliest transition to agriculture wasin the middle east2
225252186Scholars feel that early domestication of animals provided all of the following excepttrasportation3
225252187Metal working in the late Neolithic period waas used fordecoration or in ceremonies4
225252188The Neolithic town Catal huyuk prospered fromlong distance trade in obsidon, pottery, and cloth5
225252189Recent discoveries of Large stones and burial chambers may indicateancestor rituals6
225252190the religions of farming communites tended to focus onan Earth Mother or female deity.7
225252191The gradual adoption of agriculture transformed the world most by causingglobal population increase8
225252192The American continents contained very few domesticated animals becausethere were few species suitable for domestication9
225252193The Mesopotamians develped skill in bronze metallurgy. Which of the following is not considered an advantage to bronze over other metalsit is inexpensive10
225252194Creation myths often provide a society with asatisfactory explanation of its environment11
225252195the term city-state refers toan urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it controlled12
225252196The Mesopotamian writing system is calledcuneiform13
225252197What motivated Mesopotamian conquests of far-reaching territoriesthe need for vital resources14
225252198Surprisingly, merchant activity in Mesopotamia took place withoutcoins15
225252199Women in Mesopotamian society had a lower status than in a hunter-gatherer society because ofjhg16

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