Short Answer
Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
1
is often defined by societies dependent on sedentary agriculture with well developed nonfarming elites, urbanization, and economic specialization.
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2
Another term for the Old Stone Age is the
Age.
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3
The
Age is also known as the New Stone Age.
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4
The brain of the genus
was almost as large as that of modern humans.
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5
The
were people who moved down from northern Mexico in search of settlements to pillage.
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6
is the combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction.
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7
The species to which all modern humans belong is
.
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8
The level of social organization typical of hunting and gathering societies was the
of 20 to 30 people.
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9
After adopting agriculture, some late paleolithic peoples reverted to
.
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10
A successful group of sedentary hunters and gatherers subsisted in central
by intensive use of woolly mammoths.
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11
The sedentary towns of the
complex subsisted on intensive hunting and gathering.
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12
Societies that require young men to live with their wives' families after marriage are
.
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13
Societies that trace family descent and inheritance through the female line are
.
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14
One of the primary causes for the shift to sedentary agriculture was a change in the
.
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15
Because of their aggressiveness, some of the last animals domesticated were horned
.
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16
is a form of social organization based on herding domesticated animals.
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17
The Huanghe river valley is the site of the first sedentary agricultural communities of
.
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18
The primary crop of the system of agriculture that developed in China was
.
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19
The important walled town of sedentary agriculturalists located in the Jordan river valley was
.
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20
The important walled town of sedentary agriculturalists located in modern-day Turkey was
.
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21
Wheeled vehicles, metalworking, and ox-drawn plows were not known in the
.
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