The History of Food Quiz

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1. What did the earliest people eat?

 1. Anything they could find Just plants, vegetables, and fruit Just meats and dairy

2. What did early man use to kill large animals?

 2. Branches Weapons Nets

3. What did nomadic sheperds do?

 3. Raise sheep on farms Sell their sheep to butchers Travel across the country side in well-established groups

4. Name three of the large animals that prehistoric people hunted.

 4. Whales, seals, dolphins Bison, wild cattle, and deer Wild horses, foxes, and rabbits

5. When did people begin to raise plants for food?

 5. 8000 B.C. 2000 B.C. 2000 A.D.

6. Where did the earliest civilizations begin?

 6. Along the oceans River valleys Canyons

7. How many crops per year could early Egyptians plant?

 7. Two to three One or two Three or four

8. What was the basis of the Roman diet?

 8. Corn Rice Wheat

9. What foods were introduced because of the Crusades?

 9. Onions and Leeks Molassas and Grain Spices and Eastern Foods

10. Where did cherries come from?

 10. China Africa Persia