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World Cultures
The History of World Societies: The Earliest Human Societies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An alloy of copper and tin -- it is called the "miracle metal" in the National Geographic video "Birth of Civilization" | Bronze |
| They became extinct due to climate change and the arrival (and impact) of homo sapians | Megafauna |
| Crop raising done without the benefit of animal traction | Horticulture |
| The author of "Stone Age Economics" | Marshall Sahlins |
| The modification of plants and animals by selective breeding | Domestication |
| The first hominid to venture out of Africa | Homo Erectus |
| This is where the !Kung live | South Africa (Botswana) |
| A term applied to early homo sapiens in Europe | Cro-Magnon |
| This is the home of the "hobbits" (homo floresiensis) | Indonesia |
| The period during which humans began to rely on growing crops and herding animals for their food supply | The Neolithic |
| The author of "The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society" | Richard Lee |
| The author of "Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman" | Marjorie Shostak |
| The author of "Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari" | Edwin Wilmsen |
| The age where Humans relied on relied on foraging | Paleolithic Era |
| The gathering of plants, trapping or catching of small animals and birds, and hunting of larger prey | Foraging |
| The name given to the last 12 thousand years | Holocene Epoch |
| Earliest land walking Primate | Ardipithecus |
| Earliest Bipedal Primate | Australopithecus |
| Walking on four legs | Quadrupedal |
| Walking on two legs | Bipedal |
| First in Genus Homo and to make stone tools | Homo Habilis |
| Second Hominid to venture out of Africa | Homo Sapien |
| Separated Homo Sapiens from other Homos | A bigger Brain |
| The positive effects of a larger brain | Language, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Organize into larger groups. |
| The negative effects of a larger brain | Take more energy, Eat more, Painful Birth |
| Group of Homo Erectus in Europe | Neanderthals |
| A group of "Hobbits" in the Indonesian Islands | Homo Floresiensis |
| It once linked Siberia and Alaska | The Bering Land Bridge |
| An Economic System based on herding cattle | Pastoralism |
| A system of writing devised by the Sumerians | Cuneiform |
| The god at the head of Babylon's pantheon | Marduk |
| This branch of the Nile originates in Etheopia | The Blue Nile |
| Their Invasion brought the end to Egypt's Middle Kingdom | The Hyksos |
| The Hittites originated here, and spoke one of these languages | Anatolia / Indo-European |
| This Seafaring people devised the first true photonic alphabet | The Phoenicians |
| They conquered Mesopotamia (and the city of Baghdad) in the 13 century AD and laid it to waist | The Mongols |
| This country fought a costly and bloody war in Iraq in the 1980's AD | Iran |
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