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Ancient Foods-Domestication Quiz

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Here is a quiz on ancient plant and food animal domestication.

How much do you know about when and where the first foods were domesticated by humans? Test your knowledge, and see how you score.

Have fun and enjoy!

  • Question of

    What is the first domesticated grain?

    • Corn
    • Rye
  • Question of

    What is the first domesticated food animal?

    • Sheep
    • Cow
  • Question of

    When were the first grains and pulses domesticated?

    • 26000 years ago
    • 12000 years ago
  • Question of

    Where were the first plants and animals domesticated?

    • The Middle East
    • South America
  • Question of

    Bees have been domesticated for honey for

    • 9000 years
    • 3500 years
  • Question of

    Which were domesticated first?

    • Pecans
    • Olives
  • Question of

    Which area has no local domesticated plants?

    • Australia
    • North Africa
  • Question of

    Which has been used for thousands of years to ferment beer?

    • Yeast
    • Bee pollen

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Written by riverwild

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  4. Very interesting quiz. Did this mean that, before Europeans arrived in Australia, there was no farming of crops? What about animals? Were the aboriginal population exclusively hunter-gatherers?
    Oh, I got 7/8 🙂