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NREM 205 Exam 1
Civilization and Domestication of Plants and Animals
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Undergraduate 3
09/26/2011

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United States
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domesticated sunflower, cranberry, turkey and first to domesticate electron for energy transport, atom for energy generation and directly manipulate genotypes of plants and animals.

Only New World development of alphabetic writing by Cherokee.
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Mexico
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Domesticated corn, bean, squash, pumpkin, avacado, short-staple cotton, marijuana.

Mayan hieroglyphics earliest known development of pictoral writing in the New World.
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Peru
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domesticated sweet potato, potato, lima bean, tomato, peanut, tobacco, coca, lama, alpaca, chinchilla and guinea pig.
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Brazil
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domesticated pineapple, manioc, cocoa and rubber
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Turkey
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domesticated flax, first to make cloth
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Egypt
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domesticated mongoose, cat, donkey and honey bee.

first known development of civil service, hieroglyphic pictorial writing.
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Nigeria
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domesticated millet and oil palm.

Only known site of the independent development of alphabetic writing in Africa
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Syria
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Displaced Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer by developing iron smelting. 350 years later displaced by Babylonian civilization in Mesopotamia and Assyrian civilization in the Levant. First known national epic written: Epic of Gilgamesh
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Lebanon
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Phoenicians modify Egyptian hieroglyphics, spread through Mediterranean, Arabia, India and perhaps coast of Brazil
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Kenya
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domesticated Sorghum
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Ethiopia
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domesticated coffee and qhat
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Yemen
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Land of Sheeba, first civilization based on control of sea trade with India and east indies
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Oman
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Source of aromatic deodorant myrrh
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Iraq
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Mesopotamia

domesticated wheat, barley, rye, pea, onion, grape, cow, sheep, flat faced pig, dromedary, first known brewers of beer! Uruq: worlds first city arose in northern Mesopotamia. Irbil: worlds oldest continuously occupied city. Sumer: cradle of civilization based on wheat First development of an alphabet Biblical Eden perhaps in southern basra marshes first written law system
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Pakistan
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domesticated long staple cotton.
Cradle of civilization, displaced by Aryan of Central Asia who created racial caste system in India.
Developed World's oldest form of religion; Hinduism.
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India
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domesticated rice, tea, indigo, water buffalo, elephant and chicken
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Indonesia
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domesticated sugarcane, banana, yam and pepper
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Vietnam
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domesticated rice, citrus, and chicken
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Micronesia
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domesticated taro and breadfruit
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China
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domesticated millet, soybean, chisel faced pig, mallard, goose and silkworm.

Oldest continuous cradle of civilization
first professional bureaucracy. invented silk, pictographic writing, paper, printing press, porcelain, center post rudder, gunpowder, compass and wheelbarrow.
Worlds first timber management and scaling system.
worlds first documented global circumnavigation
worlds richest civilization from 4000-500 years bp
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Japan
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domesticated cormorant
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Tibet
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domesticated the Yak
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Kazakhstan
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domesticated buckwheat, hemp, bactrian (2 hump camel).

Invented stirrup making the horse more useful.
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Georgia
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domesticated apple, hops, opium and horse
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Finland
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domesticated reindeer
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Bulgaria
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domesticated oat
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Greece
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domesticated olive
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Canada
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domesticated mink and ferret
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