HI 342 exam 1
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1. Who is Fred Spier? - One of the field's primary scholars.
- referred to "the idea that all of us belong
to a single, rather exceptional, animal species,
which emerged on a rather exceptional planet
somewhere in the universe; that our closest
cousins are the primates; that we are, in fact,
related to all life forms and that, seen from
a cosmic perspective, our far cousins are the
rocks, the water, and even the stars."
2. How did the cooling climate change the It initiated the migration from Eastern Africa
tropical habitat of H. Erectus? to Eurasia, a million or more years ago.
3. What did the mass extinction of megafau- It may have caused a buildup of fuel that
na during the migration period cause? suggests the human use of fire to clear
woodlands and increase open spaces for the
spread of seeded plants.
4. What was the outcome of retreating Ice Carbon dioxide levels increased, allowing a
Age glaciers and how did it affect the cli- more robust plant life for early farmers to
mate? cultivate selectively.
5. Fire is a utility that was discovered by Homo ergaster and more than a million years
whom and how long ago? ago
6. Until the 18th - 19th century transitions A poly centric economic interaction
from workshop to factory, the global
economy concentrated on what type of
economic interaction?
7. What is subduction? A cyclical process of the motion of the plates
moving the ocean floor into deep trenches
and pates and sediments are carried into
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1. Who is Fred Spier? - One of the field's primary scholars.
- referred to "the idea that all of us belong
to a single, rather exceptional, animal species,
which emerged on a rather exceptional planet
somewhere in the universe; that our closest
cousins are the primates; that we are, in fact,
related to all life forms and that, seen from
a cosmic perspective, our far cousins are the
rocks, the water, and even the stars."
2. How did the cooling climate change the It initiated the migration from Eastern Africa
tropical habitat of H. Erectus? to Eurasia, a million or more years ago.
3. What did the mass extinction of megafau- It may have caused a buildup of fuel that
na during the migration period cause? suggests the human use of fire to clear
woodlands and increase open spaces for the
spread of seeded plants.
4. What was the outcome of retreating Ice Carbon dioxide levels increased, allowing a
Age glaciers and how did it affect the cli- more robust plant life for early farmers to
mate? cultivate selectively.
5. Fire is a utility that was discovered by Homo ergaster and more than a million years
whom and how long ago? ago
6. Until the 18th - 19th century transitions A poly centric economic interaction
from workshop to factory, the global
economy concentrated on what type of
economic interaction?
7. What is subduction? A cyclical process of the motion of the plates
moving the ocean floor into deep trenches
and pates and sediments are carried into
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