Chapter 2 Lesson 1.3 and Lesson 1.4

Discover Mesoamerican crops like maize and learn about early agriculture and ancient farming.

1. What is wild millet? wild rice tiny, yellow grain wild corn 2. One of the best-known Yangshuo sites is _. Huang He Basin China Banpo 3. What is a staple crop? main crop new crop extra crop 4. What is another word for family groupings? clan matrilineal group 5. What does matrilineal mean? descendants were traced through the father descendants were traced through the mother mother is the head of the family 6. What does Mesoamerica mean? upper America lower America middle America 7. One of the main plants Mesoamercians domesticated was _. wheat cotton maize 8. What is maize? beans corn rice 9. Where did archaeologist find prehistoric corncob fragments? highland caves of Oaxaca Tehuacan Valley both a and b 10. What did Mesoamercians rely on for their annual food supply? maize rice beans