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4828877001Describe and explain the key turning points from roughly 6 million years ago to 3500 B.C.E.Homnids emerged (homo sapiens), bipedalism, new technology, migrations0
4828878758Offer evidence that supports and evidence that undermines, the idea that paleolithic migrations essentially were the same1
4828882991Explain the continuities and changes of the Paleolithic Era2
4828885394Describe and explain causation and patterns of Paleolithic migrations3
4828886559Describe and explain comparisons of Paleolithic migrations4
4828890756Describe and explain the effects of Paleolithic hunter-foraging life on economics and cultureanimal extinction5
4828893187Describe and contextualize Paleolithic technologies6
4828895300Describe and explain the impacts of the end of the last Ice Age, ca 8000 B.C.Ehumans were able to migrate to more areas, changed climatic conditions that made agriculture more possible7
4828901233Describe and explain the socioeconomic effects of the switch to domestication(pastoral as well as farming)8
4828906668Offer evidence that supports, and evidence that undermines, the idea that the Neolithic period was an improvement over the Paleolithic Era9
4828910001Explain how the Paleolithic and Neolithic affected technological development10
4828914740Compare pastoral peoples to agriculturalists: environmentally11
4828914741Identify regions in which early permanent agriculture villages emergedChina, Mesopotamia, Olmec, Indus Valley12
4828920556Identify and contextualize technological innovations of the early Neolithic erawheel, plow, multi-layered clothing, pottery, writing, bronze and other metals13
4828927710Describe and explain how cross-cultural interactions resulted in diffusion14
4828932360Describe and explain the characteristics of a civilization: surplus, cities, labor specialization, institutions, social hierarchies, long-distance trade15
4828935481Identify areas in which the "foundational civilizations first emergedChina, Egypt, Mesopotamia16
4828937810Describe and explain the ways in which rulers of foundational civilizations legitimized and solidified their rulereligion justified what they did, rulers were "gods" or connected to the gods/spirits, codes of laws, military forces17
4828948097Describe and explain the ways in which economics and culture unified early political states18
4828960047Describe and explain environmental difficulties faced by early political states19
4828963517Compare Mesopotamian civilization with Egyptian civilizationboth paid taxes with goods and labor, both connect government with religion, hierarchies, cities built near water20
4828965729Contextualize technological developments in the Indus Valley civilizations21

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