Analyze hunter-gatherer Paleolithic societies (Sapiens evolution out of East Africa c. 200,000-70,000 BCE, migration globally, fire and tool use) and the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000-8,000 BCE) and its consequences (settlement, surplus, kingship, organized religion, writing-systems origin)
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~3 min
hist.g6.f.ex_03
Matching
Prompt
Match each agricultural-origin region to its primary staple crop: (a) Fertile Crescent c. 10,000 BCE; (b) China c. 9,000 BCE; (c) Mesoamerica c. 8,000 BCE; (d) sub-Saharan Africa c. 5,000 BCE; (e) Andes c. 5,000 BCE.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
matching
pairs
- a
- wheat/barley
- b
- rice/millet
- c
- maize/beans
- d
- sorghum/yams
- e
- potatoes/quinoa
Hints
- Each region developed agriculture INDEPENDENTLY.
- The crops match the regional ecology.
Misconceptions to watch
- Assuming agriculture diffused from one center
- Erasing African and American agricultural-origin regions
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