Test 1 Study Guide

The paleolithic revolution was triggered by the creation of

stone tools

paleolithic people began to move northeast in Asia because

the supply of big game was diminisging

one of the earliest sedentary communities in North America on the Mississippi River in Louisiana was founded

3,700 years ago

The best characterization of the transition form a nomadic existence to settled agricultural life for Archaic American Indians is that

the move from hunting and foraging to farming was slow and uneven

The first and possibly greatest feat of genetic engineering was the creation of

maize 7,000 years ago

the Anasazi of the Colorado Plateau began the

construction of trenches and homes about 2500 bp because they embraced corn cultivation

The accomplishments of the corn-growing Anasazi and Hohokam Indians become clear if we

consider the environmental challenges they overcame

The sedentary lifestyle of agricultural Indian tribes promoted higher birth rates because

infants weakened a hunting tribe’s mobility but offered more helping hands on the field