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Who discovered the bones of the earliest known human at Olduvai Gorge?
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Louis B. and Mary Leakey
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All human beings today belong to the ____ subspecies of human being.
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Homo sapiens sapiens
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Paleolithic peoples were nomads because they had no choice but to
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follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles
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The Paleolithic Age is
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the period in which humans used simple stone tools
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Who were the first humans to learn to deliberately make fires?
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Homo erectus
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The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the
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shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture
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The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant humans
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could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities
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Food surpluses in the Neolithic farming village of Catal Hyuk
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made it possible for people to do things other than farming
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The use of metals marked the end of the Neolithic Age and a
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new level of human control over the environment and its resources
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Historians have identified the basic characteristics of civilizations as
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cities, governments, religion, social structures, writing, and art
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