Although about 100,000 years ago Homo sapiens began spreading across the globe, it appears that significant changes in how Homo sapiens lived and organized themselves only date to the end of the last major Ice Age, between 20,000 and 15,000 years
ago. Write an essay that explains these changes.
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: As communities separated and adapted to different environments, they developed ways of life of their own and divergence increased spectacularly after the Ice Age. Responses to climatic change such as following migrating herds, beginnings of settled life, and moving from foraging to agriculture such as tilling and herding should be mentioned.
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a. clearer style of handwriting. b. form of decorative illustration. c. curriculum of study in Charlemagne's schools. d. None of these answers are correct.
The Berlin Conference of 1884
A. settled the Boer War that had started in South Africa. B. established guidelines to ease frictions between Europeans over African colonization. C. gave African delegates a voice about the direction of colonial ambition. D. devised a system for collaborative missionary activity in Africa. E. was convened to slow the spread of colonialism in Africa by European powers..
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a. the introduction of slavery to Rome. b. Roman contact with the legal experience of the Greeks and other peoples, which influenced the law of nations. c. the concept of equal citizenship except for freed slaves. d. the enslavement of Roman citizens. e. higher taxation of conquered peoples.