Why are many anthropologists interested in the reasons ancient civilizations collapsed?
A) Anthropologists like to study “failures.”
B) They show which political system is the most successful over time.
C) Knowing about the decline of states in the past may help us preserve our own.
D) The decline of ancient civilizations supports our modern notion of cultural evolution
C) Knowing about the decline of states in the past may help us preserve our own.
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Even in the United States—an urbanized society with relatively few marriage restrictions—people tend to marry within their __________.
A) geographic area and educational level B) educational level and profession C) profession and class D) class and geographic area
The sum of the quantity supplied by all firms in the short-run at various prices is equal to the short-run ________ curve.
A) market demand B) market average total cost C) market average variable cost D) market supply
Pliopithecus was an:
A. African hominoid from the Early Miocene B. European hominoid from the Middle Miocene C. African prosimian from the Early Eocene D. African anthropoid from the Late Eocene
The discoveries at Olduvai Gorge are important because:
A. they documented the early presence of hominins in Africa. B. they gave the age of the first hominins as around 500,000 years ago. C. they shifted attention to East Asia as the cradle of human evolution. D. they provided the first finds of Homo sapiens.