Before the deliberate cultivation of crops, hunter and gatherer peoples rarely did what?
a. hold group feasts
b. sacrifice food to the gods
c. set traps to hunt animals
d. store food for the future
e. track changing climate conditions
d
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As a result of the Glorious Revolution in England
a. the Irish gained a number of rights (petition, jury trial, etc.). b. William and Mary were deposed, and James II became the English ruler. c. Parliament enshrined divine right absolutism in England. d. Parliament became a major participant in the running of the English government. e. Oliver Cromwell was driven into exile.
Which of the following is a likely description of how early humans domesticated plants?
A. After careful observation, early humans began to understand the science behind plant growth, which enabled them to grow crops on a very large scale. B. Humans separated out the seeds of those plants they liked to eat over generations by chance and slowly began to observe that they could coax these plants to grow by placing their seeds in the ground. C. As human societies grew larger and more complex, they collectively decided that growing food for themselves would be far more efficient than gathering it from the wild. D. As global temperatures began to fall roughly 10,000 years ago, humans had to rapidly develop more reliable ways of feeding their communities. The domestication of plants was therefore the outcome of ecological necessity.
Columbus was Spanish.
a. true b. false
Pugachev's rebellion broke out after
A) a bad harvest caused massive starvation in Poland. B) Prussia successfully invaded Russia and seized half of the Ukraine. C) Catherine the Great's policies worsened conditions for the peasantry. D) Catherine the Great reduced the power of the landed nobility. E) Russia's defeat by the Ottoman Empire.