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What is the reason for Africa's late adoption of agriculture compared to other continents?
What is the reason for Africa's late adoption of agriculture compared to other continents?
- Lack of suitable climate for domesticated crops
- Lack of domesticable plant and animal species (correct)
- Lack of knowledge about agriculture
- Lack of interest in settling down in permanent villages
Who first coined the term Anthropocene?
Who first coined the term Anthropocene?
- An Italian geologist in the 1870s
- Paul Crutzen in 2002 (correct)
- Jan Zalasiewicz in the 1990s
- A group of geologists in the 1960s
What happened about 10,000 years ago that changed the competitive race among the world's humans?
What happened about 10,000 years ago that changed the competitive race among the world's humans?
- The discovery of oil
- The invention of the wheel
- The origins of agriculture (correct)
- The rise of industrialization
Which of the following is NOT true about the Anthropocene?
Which of the following is NOT true about the Anthropocene?
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What advantage did Africans have over humans on other continents?
What advantage did Africans have over humans on other continents?
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Why was the idea of the Anthropocene ignored when it was first proposed in the 1870s?
Why was the idea of the Anthropocene ignored when it was first proposed in the 1870s?
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Study Notes
- Africa spans both north and south temperate zones with a thick tropical core.
- Africa is the place where the evolutionary lines of apes and protohumans diverged.
- Africa's human history is where Homo sapiens evolved into a behaviorally modern species.
- Africans enjoyed three huge head starts over humans on other continents.
- The rules of the competitive race among the world's humans changed radically about 10,000 years ago with the origins of agriculture.
- Domestication of wild plants and animals allowed people to settle in permanent villages, increase their populations, and to feed specialists.
- Only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication, concentrated in about half a dozen parts of the world.
- Africa's native plant species weren't domesticated until thousands of years after Asia and Europe had agriculture.
- Africa's geography kept oil palm, yams, and other crops of equatorial Africa from spreading into southern Africa's temperate zone.
- The domesticated sheep and cattle of Fertile Crescent origins took about 5,000 years to spread from the Mediterranean down to the southern tip of Africa.
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