AESC 2050 1 EXAM Q’S AND A’S
Agriculture - answer- The sequence or practice of farming, including cultivation of the
soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, clothing and
other products
Non-Food agricultural crop examples - answer- Cotton, tobacco, marijuana
Culture - answer- The unique combinations of customs, beliefs and practices
(including languages, arts, rituals, institutions and technologies) that are transmitted
from one generation to another and distinguish societies from each other
What do we and our food animals eat? - answer- Corn in highest percent, then rice
and wheat
Where do we grow corn? - answer- Northern USA, eastern Asia, eastern Africa,
eastern South America
Where do we grow rice? - answer- Primarily in south eastern Asia
Where do we grow wheat? - answer- Europe primarily
Battle of Cajamarca - answer- 169 Spaniards faced an army of 80,000 Inca soldiers.
In first 10 minutes 7,000 Incas dead. When dust settled, not a single Spaniard was
dead
When did history begin? - answer- 3000 BC at the invention of writing
What was the first indication of a conscious cultural act? - answer- Hominids began
to chip and shape pieces of stone into rough-hewn tools 2 million years ago, marking
the beginning of the Paleolithic Period
Hominids vs other animals adaptation - answer- Hominids adjusted to their
environment through biological evolution and also through cultural adaptation unlike
other animals
Early prehistoric hominids were - answer- Foragers: opportunistic eaters that
scavenged for food from their immediate environment
Key to emerging hominids - answer- Mobility: small groups (family as the central
institution) with few permanent possessions
Gender division of emerging hominids - answer- Not rigid- adult females often
assisted in hunting and protection, while adult males assisted in gathering and
childcare
Wise humans - answer- Homo Sapiens Sapiens emerged in Central Africa about
200,000-150,000 years ago
, Agricultural Revolutions - answer- ~10,000 years ago
Why did agriculture develop? - answer- End of the last ice age brought warmer
climates and wider expanses of grasses and grains in the Fertile Crescent resulting
in nomadic humans starting to settle in one location and developing new techniques
to gather and process food
Mobility vs Stability - answer- M: Small groups, few children, few possessions
S: =growth, larger groups, more children, many possessions
Slowly in many places on the globe in prehistoric agriculture - answer- -gathering is
replaced by cultivation
-hunting is replaced by domestication
-nomadic tribes are replaced with farming villages
Advantages/Disadvantages to Nomadic lifestyles - answer- -Less work
-Healthier(few we diseases)
-Reduced environmental impact
-No food storage
-Few possessions
-Small family/community
Advantages/disadvantages to Farming lifestyles - answer- -More work
-Disease/sanitation
-Modification of environment
-Food and possession surplus and storage
-Heavy reliance on weather
-Larger families/complex communities/ gov
Since agriculture could support more people, they gained advantages in - answer-
Population
Weapons
Possessions
Power
Emergence of agriculture allows for 3 things in the development of human culture -
answer- Land Ownership
Surplus food
Labor specialization
Changing status of women - answer- Due to the division of labor in emerging
agricultural settlements and the new desire to have large families as a workforce,
woman see their status fall to a subordinate role
Advantages of europeans - answer- Technology: guns, steel, ships, written
languages, horses
Government: funding, military strategy, religion
Diseases: small pox, measles, influenza, plague
Agriculture - answer- The sequence or practice of farming, including cultivation of the
soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, clothing and
other products
Non-Food agricultural crop examples - answer- Cotton, tobacco, marijuana
Culture - answer- The unique combinations of customs, beliefs and practices
(including languages, arts, rituals, institutions and technologies) that are transmitted
from one generation to another and distinguish societies from each other
What do we and our food animals eat? - answer- Corn in highest percent, then rice
and wheat
Where do we grow corn? - answer- Northern USA, eastern Asia, eastern Africa,
eastern South America
Where do we grow rice? - answer- Primarily in south eastern Asia
Where do we grow wheat? - answer- Europe primarily
Battle of Cajamarca - answer- 169 Spaniards faced an army of 80,000 Inca soldiers.
In first 10 minutes 7,000 Incas dead. When dust settled, not a single Spaniard was
dead
When did history begin? - answer- 3000 BC at the invention of writing
What was the first indication of a conscious cultural act? - answer- Hominids began
to chip and shape pieces of stone into rough-hewn tools 2 million years ago, marking
the beginning of the Paleolithic Period
Hominids vs other animals adaptation - answer- Hominids adjusted to their
environment through biological evolution and also through cultural adaptation unlike
other animals
Early prehistoric hominids were - answer- Foragers: opportunistic eaters that
scavenged for food from their immediate environment
Key to emerging hominids - answer- Mobility: small groups (family as the central
institution) with few permanent possessions
Gender division of emerging hominids - answer- Not rigid- adult females often
assisted in hunting and protection, while adult males assisted in gathering and
childcare
Wise humans - answer- Homo Sapiens Sapiens emerged in Central Africa about
200,000-150,000 years ago
, Agricultural Revolutions - answer- ~10,000 years ago
Why did agriculture develop? - answer- End of the last ice age brought warmer
climates and wider expanses of grasses and grains in the Fertile Crescent resulting
in nomadic humans starting to settle in one location and developing new techniques
to gather and process food
Mobility vs Stability - answer- M: Small groups, few children, few possessions
S: =growth, larger groups, more children, many possessions
Slowly in many places on the globe in prehistoric agriculture - answer- -gathering is
replaced by cultivation
-hunting is replaced by domestication
-nomadic tribes are replaced with farming villages
Advantages/Disadvantages to Nomadic lifestyles - answer- -Less work
-Healthier(few we diseases)
-Reduced environmental impact
-No food storage
-Few possessions
-Small family/community
Advantages/disadvantages to Farming lifestyles - answer- -More work
-Disease/sanitation
-Modification of environment
-Food and possession surplus and storage
-Heavy reliance on weather
-Larger families/complex communities/ gov
Since agriculture could support more people, they gained advantages in - answer-
Population
Weapons
Possessions
Power
Emergence of agriculture allows for 3 things in the development of human culture -
answer- Land Ownership
Surplus food
Labor specialization
Changing status of women - answer- Due to the division of labor in emerging
agricultural settlements and the new desire to have large families as a workforce,
woman see their status fall to a subordinate role
Advantages of europeans - answer- Technology: guns, steel, ships, written
languages, horses
Government: funding, military strategy, religion
Diseases: small pox, measles, influenza, plague
