Chapter 11: Key Question 1: QUIZ PART 2

According to Carl Sauer, the earliest plant domestication

Probably involved planting root crops

Most scholars believe that seed cultivation (First Agricultural Revolution) occurred in
the Fertile Crescent
What was the advantage of domesticating animals?
A) Animals provided meat.
B) Animals provided furs and skins.
C) Animals were beasts of burden.
Subsistence agriculture dominates in less developed countries
A form of tropical subsistence agriculture in which fields are rotated after short
periods of crop production is shifting cultivation

In areas of shifting cultivation the population cannot have high density