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This Fleeting World (Crash Course)
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This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity presents this story in three big acts: the era of foraging, the agrarian era, and the modern era. 

This Fleeting World (Crash Course)
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25 Questions

1. Where was Christianity started?

2. Define: Cities

3. List the four most important world zones

4. List reasons why foragers and pastoralists were helpful

5. Describe the Agrarian Era

6. What do you need to remember when studying the modern foraging communities?

7. Why did people start to think that humans caused large species to go extinct?

8. Why did Patriarchy start to arise?

9. During the foraging era how much was the population doubling by?

10. Where did the first written documents appear?

11. Where did agriculture start?

12. How were we able to know that humans first started migrate?

13. How did the Ice Age help agriculture become the new norm?

14. Why did there become a divide between the farmers and the non-farmers

15. Define: Agrarian Civilizations

16. Define Domestication

17. Why is it hard to use all three methods?

18. Why is it so important that we are able to communicate?

19. As long as you were paying your tales and supplying food the rulers ______ all that much about what else you were doing

20. Foragers didn't make their ideas real objects

21. Was the Foraging Era a time of extensive not intensive environments?

22. What choice would overpopulation posed?

23. Where was Buddhism started?

24. What are the three different types of evidence one needs to study for the Foraging Era

25. Agriculture was chosen b choice