How did the Acheulean tool tradition differ from the Oldowan?

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The Acheulean was not a pebble tradition, but a technology based on the production of hand axes. They were more efficient, tended to be smaller, and were produced by Homo erectus, whereas Oldowan was associated with Homo habilis.

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a: a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination b: overt sociopolitical strategies c: social controls that induce guilt and shame in the population d: the critique of power by the oppressed that goes on offstage- in private- where the power holders can't see it e: the open, public interactions between dominators and oppressed- the outer shell of power relations

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The Vedanta society was started by

A. Sayyid Ahmad Khan B. Mohandas Gandhi C. Swami Vivekananda D. Helena Blavatsky E. Ram Mohan Roy

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During the last glaciation in Eurasia

a. human habitation was impossible. b. the entire area was permanently covered with ice-sheets. c. a warming trend at about 30,000 y.a. partially melted the glacial ice. d. hunting was impossible because there were no animals in the region. e. none of these

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