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Human Origins

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Human Origins

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Human Origins

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The theory that over long periods of time species

changed in order to survive

Answer


evolution or natural selection


Archaeologist Louis and Mary Leakey theorize that this

continent is the cradle of humanity

Answer


Africa


This family of primates includes

australopithecine, homo habilis, and

homo erectus

Answer


hominids


Along with bipedalism and a large brain, the

third trait that humans possess that

distinguish them from other primates

Answer


lower larynx


The percentage of human DNA that is identical to that of

apes

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98


The first recognizable cultural activity of

human beings

Answer


tool making


The development, transmission, and transformation of

cultural practices and events

Answer


history


Most early human activity centered on this

Answer


gathering food


The reason why many large species of

mammals may have disappeared between

40,000 and 11,000 years ago

Answer


hunted to extinction


The most efficient method of clearing land for agriculture

Answer


fire (slash and burn)


The earliest transition to agriculture occurred in

villages like Jericho and Catal Huyuk in this region

of the world

Answer


the Middle East


The gradual adoption of agriculture

transformed the world the most by causing

this

Answer


human population increase


The period in history between 8000-3000 BCE is known as the Neolithic Age: this would be a more

appropriate nameAnswer

Daily Double!!!


Agricultural Revolution (Age of

Agriculture)


The religion of farming

communities focused primarily on

this deityAnswer


Earth Mother (female deity)


The earliest historically

documented people of Mesopotamia

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Sumer


The two reasons why early civilizations developed in the

floodplains of great rivers

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fertile silt and water for agriculture


An urban center and the agricultural hinterlands it

controlled

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city-state


This Babylonian leader is best known for his law code - “an eye for an

eye.”

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Hammurabi


This system of payment for traded

goods was in effect far before the advent of

coins

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barter


The abundance of these in Mesopotamia

suggest the widespread belief in the value of magic

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amulets


The Mesopotamian writing system

Answer


cuneiform


The one thing that natural resource poor Mesopotamia had an

abundance of

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clay (for brick making)


This civilization’s floods could be

described as “fairly regular”

Answer


Egypt


This ruler founded the first Egyptian dynasty by unifying both Upper

and Lower Egypt

Answer


Menes


The function of the Egyptian kings was to maintain the divinely

authorized order of the universe, known as this

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ma’at


The material one would expect Egyptian

administrative and government to be

recorded on

Answer


papyrus


The two main cities of Early Indian Civilization

Answer


Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro


The most important thing to know about

the Indus River Valley system of writing other

than it existed

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has not been deciphered


The river valley civilization that had

cities laid out on a grid pattern and also had

running water to homes

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Indus


The river valley civilization associated

with scribes and ziggurats

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Mesopotamia

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