Comparing the Charts, Maps, and Other Data on the World

question 8

Multiple Choice

Comparing the charts, maps, and other data on the world population growth in this chapter, one can deduce that after the Ice Age, approximately 10,000 years ago Earth's human population

• A) changed little because of the availability of food from massive land animals.
• B) began a long period of near stagnation, following a heretofore unprecedented period of rapid growth.
• C) had not yet appeared on the surface of the planet.
• D) began to increase at a heretofore unprecedented rate, following millennia of near stagnation.
• E) increased at unprecedented rates for two centuries, then declined again.

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