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Learning Curve Q&A 1. About when did humans first migrate into Europe? a. 45,000 years ago 2. What new food source became available to Paleolithic peoples around 16,000 years ago after the end of the last Ice Age? a. Wild grains 3. Which ecological change after the last Ice Age helped to account for the emergence of agriculture between 4,000 and 12,000 years ago? a. Cereal grasses flourished in warmer, wetter weather. 4. Which region is the likeliest point of origin for Indo-European languages? a. Anatolia in the Middle East 5. Where did the chiefdom of Cahokia emerge? a. Eastern woodlands of North America 6. Which of the following most accurately describes current scholarship on the migration of humans into the Americas? a. There is much debate over when and how the migration took place. 7. The arrival of humans in Australia, North America, Siberia, Madagascar, and the Pacific islands had what shared result on these environments? a. A number of large animals when extinct fairly quickly after their arrival.

Learning Curve Q&A 8. What distinguished the process of plant domestication in sub-Saharan Africa in comparison to the Fertile Crescent? a. In sub-Saharan Africa crops emerged in widely scattered regions, whereas in the Fertile Crescent a large number of crops were domesticated in a small region. 9. Why did the Agricultural Revolution so often displace or disadvantage indigenous Paleolithic populations? a. Land must be possessed and traffic through it controlled in order to maximize food production. 10. Which of the following statements best reflects current thought on gender systems in early agricultural village societies? a. Some societies traced their descent through matrilineal lines, others through patrilineal lines. 11. Refer to the map The Global Dispersion of Humankind to answer the following:

Learning Curve Q&A The text mentions the theory of a "kelp highway," a rich marine ecosystem that supported sufficient marine life to sustain early migrants as they sought a new home by sea. Which arrow on the map runs roughly parallel to this kelp highway? a. The migration across the Russia-Alaska land bridge and into South America. 12. Which of the following best describes Paleolithic societies? a. They were small, consisting of bands of twenty-five to fifty people. 13. Refer to the map The Global Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism to answer the following question. How did the early agriculture of the Andean region of South America differ from the rest of the Americas? a. The Andes people had access to large mammals that could be domesticated to meet multiple agricultural needs.

Learning Curve Q&A 14. What factor had the most significant effect on agricultural innovations in sub-Saharan Africa? a. Bantu-speaking people migrated east and south from southern Nigeria or Cameroon, absorbing, killing, or displacing indigenous Paleolithic peoples. 15. What did pastoralists and gathering and hunting societies from the Paleolithic period share? a. Women enjoyed relative equality in these communities compared to others in human history. 16. Which of the following has been cited as early evidence of Homo sapiens rather than other hominids in Africa? a. Use of body ornaments, beads, and pigments. 17. What does the presence of rock art deep inside caves, well away from living areas, tell us about the lives of Paleolithic peoples? a. Some Paleolithic peoples created ceremonial spaces separate from ordinary life. 18. Which of the following was a factor that helps account for the emergence of agriculture between 4,000 and 12,000 years ago after countless millennia of human life without it? a. The extinction of many large mammals drove people to agriculture. 19. Which evidence gathered from early farmers' remains most strongly suggests that agricultural life required more sustained

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