AP WORLD bnotes
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World History [1]
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Charlotte Werner AP World History Chapter 1 Pages 3-33 Today every significant landmass on earth is occupied by human beings, but it was not always so. A mere half million years ago our species did not exist, and only 100,000 years ago that species was limited to Africa and numbered, some scholars believe, fewer than 10,000 individuals. The ?Paleolithic? era literally means ?the stone age.? But it usually refers more generally to the food-collecting or hunter-gatherer way of life. Before agriculture allowed people to grow food or raise animals. Lasting until 11,000 years ago, the Paleolithic era represents over 95 percent of the time that human beings have inhabited the earth, although it accounts