One Thing That We Know for Certain About the Earliest

question 15

Multiple Choice

One thing that we know for certain about the earliest people is that

• A) the largest influx of people took place between 9500 and 8000 BCE.
• B) most arrived about 15,000 years ago.
• C) the greatest influx of people in the early period came between 20,000 and 10,000 BCE.
• D) they brought with them their skills in fur-trapping.
• E) they were already skilled in agriculture when they arrived.

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