Humans and Animals
Humans co-evolved alongside the animals of Africa, giving these animals time and opportunity to adapt coping strategies in response to humans for hundreds of thousands of years. These strategies made them more evasive and harder to ___________.
A farmer’s work day was _______ than that of a forager.
What is longer. Farmer's day was around 9.5 hours as compared to 6 hours of a forager.
Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a delay in the arrival of __________ when compared to Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.
Historians only use written historical accounts to study past events.
Elon Musk was born in ________ in 1971
Megafauna in Australia and the Americas, on the other hand, were taken by surprise when humans arrived and had very little time to ______ to them.
Early _______ faced more disease, less nutrition and worse health than ___________.
Even after farming was introduced, large regions of Africa escaped the rigid hierarchies, the rule of despotic monarchs, and the widening gap between the rich and poor that characterize __________ civilizations.
What is agrarian.
Once agriculture was established in West Africa, around 3000 BCE, it spread quickly and led to population growth in larger, agrarian civilizations.
Note: be sure all facts are true.
Our friend Elon became famous for starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX but he first made his fortune as a co-founder of _______.
Megafauna in Australia and the Americas, on the other hand, were taken by surprise when humans arrived and had very little time to adapt to them—thus many of them _________ __________.
__________ had greater vulnerability to climate and ecological disasters.
A disaster 74,000 years ago occurred 10,000 years before the biggest human migration out of Africa occurred. As a result, there is more ______ _______ between two different groups of chimpanzees separated by a few hundred miles than there is in the entire human species now spread across Earth.
Historians and scientists study events using the same tools, artifacts, and documents.
At age 12, Musk taught himself _________ ________ and created a video game called Blastar, which he sold for $500.
What is computer programming.
_______ ________ provide humans with the ability to preserve and pass on large amounts of information from one generation to the next. With this ability comes incredible power.
Where did farming first take hold in sub-Saharan Africa?
What is West Africa. It was in in the fairly lush and habitable savanna on the border between present-day Nigeria and Cameroon.
societies, and in fact sub-Saharan Africa had to come up with farming independently,
in West Africa, below the desert. Also, there are many dense malarial forests that
would be very difficult for foragers to clear, settle, and farm, even if they wanted to.
Finally, diseases also had evolved alongside humans in Africa, and there were many
tropical diseases that made it a good idea for humans to keep moving rather than set
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tle down.
Another factor contributing to the long absence of agriculture in Africa is the lack of
so-called “Gardens of Eden,” regions so lush and abundant with life that foragers
would settle there and no longer need to travel for a generation or so. Eventually, they
would exhaust the land and fall into the ________ __ __________.
What is the trap of sedentism.
DNA testing tells us that a disaster 74,000 years ago, which many think was the super-eruption of Mount Toba, reduced the human population to a few hundred.
What is false.
DNA testing tells us that a disaster 74,000 years ago, which many think was the super-eruption of Mount Toba, reduced the human population to a few thousand.
Despite his enormous recent success, both his flagship companies (__________ and ________) came alarmingly close to failing. Tesla'a first electric car, the Roadster, faced an ongoing string of production problems, and _________ had three launch failures before its fourth and final effort was a success.
What is SpaceX and Tesla Motors and Space X
The domestication of animals and the increase of population in cities led to the spread of _________.
When did farming first take hold in sub-Saharan Africa?
What is about 3000 BCE. (some estimates state even a little earlier)
What is a despotic monarchy.
Culture is where a group of individuals lives and interact with others. Society, on the other hand, is the way of life of these people. This includes the norms, values, mores, customs and traditions, etc.
What is false. It's actually the other way around:
Society is where a group of individuals lives and interact with others. Culture, on the other hand, is the way of life of these people. This includes the norms, values, mores, customs and traditions, etc.
Elon Musk didn't become an American citizen until 2002, at age 31.
When Elon Musk was 17, he moved from South Africa to Canada. Eventually, he attended college in the U.S. at the University of Pennsylvania.
After graduating, Musk moved to California in order to begin graduate school in __________ at Stanford University. He left Stanford after just two days, deciding instead to take advantage of the Internet boom, which was in full swing.
After dropping out of grad school, Musk quickly established his first company --Zip2, which provided online newspapers with maps and business directories. He sold the company in 1999 for $307 million