Ag In Society Midterm Review

The Nile River empties into

The name of corn's wild ancestor is

Egypt is much more agriculturally productive today than in ancient times

The Egyptians wrote on.....

The Egyptians were highly skilled at farming....

The Egyptians wrote much more about the lives of everyday people than the Mesopotamians

This animal is often blamed for terrace destruction, but it moreso is the fault of poor human management

Which of these would NOT be a trait we would breed into livestock

Most people's clothes in Egypt and Mesopotamia would have been made from...

This would have been the dry season in most of the Mediterranean uplands

The vast majority of agricultural land is in Upper Egypt

The Egyptian flooding season would begin in

As populations increase, land needed PER PERSON increases

The purpose of threshing is to

This group of people professed to worship the earth, but in practice had little regard for it

The White Nile gets its coloring from....

This was the preferred crop for Mesopotamians

Which of these is NOT a water saving strategy used in modern Israel?

The purpose of a terrace is...

The auroch is the name of ancient ______

The most dominant type of livestock in Mesopotamia

Most of human history is contained within the Paleolithic era

A damaged terrace often causes worse runoff than not building one at all

Ancient Mesopotamians wrote on....

This would have been the most common meat eaten by Egyptian commoners

Apsu and Tiamat represented

New World Crops were mostly domesticated after Old World Crops

This was the first civilization to build sophisticated roads between city states

Which of the following are consequences of the construction of the Aswan Dam

One reason agriculture became more attractive 10,000-12,000 years ago....

We have an extremely good idea of how all animals were domesticated

We know much more about the ancient Egyptians than the Mesopotamians

The most consumed crop globally today is

Which of the following would have been the last to be domesticated.....

After depleting their topsoil, the Greeks could only rely on growing

The diets of most ancient commoners would have been mostly vegetarian

All traits bred into early crops would have made them less suited to survive in the wild

The Aswan Dam.....

Egypt is much less food secure today than in ancient times

This group of people was well known as traders and seafarers

The reason sheep would have first been domesticated would have been for their wool

Climate around the rivers in Egypt and Mesopotamia is best described as....

This group of people is responsible for the first civilization in Mesopotamia

The main reason for the destruction of Israeli terraces was.....

This group of people was known for extremely advanced aqueducts to supply their cities with water

Much of our modern understanding of Ancient Egypt comes from _____ scholars

Malthus' Hypothesis had to deal with

Most of the Roman Civilization relied on ____ for agricultural labor (later in history)

Which of the following is NOT a trait that would have been bred into early crops

The earliest Egyptian Farmers would have relied on _____ to irrigate their crops

Over time Roman agriculture saw....

This soil particle holds lots of nutrients to it

This is the flooding season of Egyptian Agriculture

The two most important crops to Egypt/Mesopotamia were....

Which of the following is NOT generally true of most of the Mediterranean upland region

These would have been used in the Mediterranean to help store rain water for the dry season

This kind of food provides the most calories to people today as well as in the past

Most of the flooding of the Nile comes from water in the White Nile

This is a spiral fan angled inside a metal tube that carries water from low elevation to high

Which of the following was the biggest problem for ancient Mediterranean agriculture?

Why would the Greeks have to switch to growing grapes and olives?

The reason Ancient Egypt never had problems with salinization was.....

The biggest environmental issue in the Mediterranean was

A cistern collects groundwater

This invention helps to measure the depth and murkiness of a river

These people can be credited with the first empire in Mesopotamia

The Natufians adjusted to farming well because.....

Malthus' Hypothesis was....

Most early civilizations began in

This is the simplest of water lifting devices, with a bucket on one end attached to an arm with a counterweight

This would have been the largest empire we looked at to control Mesopotamia

This group of people relied on their vast cedar forests to trade for other goods

After destroying their soil resources at home most civilizations in the Mediterranean then.....

Apsu and Tiamat are associated with....

This was the first group of people to settle in the Mesopotamia region

This is the most sophisticated of water lifting devices used by Ancient Egyptians

What aspect of agriculture was heavily regulated by Hammurabi's code?

In the Negative Confession, a soul could be judged in Egyptian religion for.....

In Ancient Mesopotamia farmers of this commodity were often given spots right along the rivers

The Romans and Greeks relied on taking over this civilization to provide them with food

Egypt's Population today is much _____ than in ancient times

Mouflon is the name for ancient.....

Most major Egyptian cities are in Lower Egypt

The Tigris is a longer, calmer river than the Euphrates

This country today faces serious problems with soil salinity

Which invention would cause significant flooding in Mesopotamia

Latifundia were small family farms in Rome

A sickle is a tool used for

Poultry would have been initially domesticated for meat production

Lower Egypt is geographically north of Upper Egypt

Jared Diamond suggests people became farmers because....

The most important agricultural commodities to the Greek economy today

The reason for the disappearance of the Sumerians was......

When it comes to water re-use the United States is....

The most likely reason for the disappearance of the Akkadians

Egypt and Mesopotamia didn't have great natural resources outside of agriculture

Which of the following was NOT one of Jared Diamond's Arguments