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World History Ch1
Prentice Hall World History Connections to Today
Question | Answer |
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When did the Neolithic agricultural revolution begin? | 9000 B.C. |
What area do many scientists believe the earliest people lived in? | East Africa. |
Two types of social scientists who learn about the human past by examining artifacts are archaeologists and what? | historians. |
Why do historians study the past? | to learn why events happened. |
When did major differences in social classes begin to emerge? | at the beginning of civilization. |
Who is associated with the term "Son of Heaven?" | early Chinese kings. |
What important breakthrough marked the beginning of the New Stone Age (or Neolithic period)? | People learned to farm. |
Since people needed fertile soil for farming, where did the first cities emerge? | in river valleys. |
What did early historians mostly write about? | well-known and powerful people. |
When did early people first begin to use stone tools? | during the Old Stone Age. |
What did different cultures develop calendars based on? | the cycles of the sun and moon. |