Climate Change at the End of the Last Ice Age

question 42

Multiple Choice

Climate change at the end of the last Ice Age had the effect of

• A) creating conditions that were stable around the world and favorable to agriculture.
• B) beginning a divide between more innovative thinkers who adopted agriculture and more conservative ones who retained hunting and gathering.
• C) causing climatic instability that created a common, conservative mentality among early farmers and hunters.
• D) forcing many people to question their ancient traditions.

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Re-Order Point

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Demand

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Standard Deviation

A measure that indicates the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.

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