Why is the environment so central to the evolution of humans and human society? How did changes in climate help drive evolution, migration, and the shift from foraging to agriculture in some human populations?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: Most species stay where they are best adapted. Yet Homo sapiens relocated in challengingly different places: deep forests, where grassland habits were of limited use; deserts and seas, which demanded technologies humans had not yet developed; unfamiliar climates, which bred unaccustomed diseases. Migrations coincided with the Ice Age, a period of cold climate. The people who traversed the ice-helmed world were conscious migrants, not just creatures whom biological and environmental imperatives impelled. Migration changed people's relationships with each other, the size and organization of their groups, the way they saw the world, and the way they interacted with other species. Food-gathering strategies changed and communities separated and adapted to different environments by using agriculture, tilling or herding, to survive and grow.
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A) The law required only lawmakers to help capture suspected runaways. B) The law would punish citizens who failed to help capture runaways. C) Southerners were personally responsible for recapturing their slaves. D) It actually weakened previous laws, due to abolitionist outcry.
Odysseus' visit to Achilles in the underworld shows the importance the Greeks placed on
A) individual achievement in this world. B) lasting fame. C) individual salvation. D) the success of their polis. E) serving the gods rather than themselves.
Which segment of global culture seems to have the brightest future, considering its reach and influence?
a. Music b. Fashion c. Sports d. Literature e. Sports
What was Tecumseh trying to accomplish?
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