Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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c. 3300 BC | The Stone Age comes to an end in with the start of this metallic age in the Near East | {Bronze} Age | 96%
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c. 9700 BC | This "age" ends after global temperatures increase 10° Celsius from where they were in 20,000 B.C. | {Ice} Age | 90%
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c. 8000 BC | This crop, at the time resembling a tall grass, is first domesticated in modern-day Mexico | Maize | 85%
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c. 3400 BC | The earliest evidence of this Egyptian burial practice | Mummification | 82%
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c. 12,500 BC | This desert experiences a wet period which would last 8,000 years. Lake Megachad grows to nearly the size of the Caspian Sea. | Sahara | 79%
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c. 2 mil BC | This "upright man" species evolves in Africa, later spreading throughout Asia and Europe | Homo {erectus} | 78%
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c. 33,000 BC | These close human relatives go extinct, with the last individuals living in modern-day Spain | Neanderthals | 77%
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c. 50,000 BC | Humans first arrive on this land mass, likely causing the extinction of the marsupial lion and many other megafauna | Australia | 75%
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c. 5000 BC | The Vinča culture, in modern-day Serbia, are the first people to turn ore into metal. The metal that they refine is ... | Copper | 72%
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c. 10,000 BC | This part of the world is the first have permanent cities and agriculture | {Fertile} Crescent | 69%
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c. 3.3 mil BC | This earliest part of the Stone Age begins with the first use of stone tools by hominids | {Paleo}lithic | 69%
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c. 10,000 BC | This later part of the Stone Age begins with the inventions described above | {Neo}lithic | 68%
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c. 3300 BC | Prehistory ends and history begins with the invention of... | Written language | 65%
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c. 9000 BC | Rising sea levels cause this land bridge between Asia and North America to disappear | {Bering} Land Bridge | 61%
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c. 9500 BC | Göbekli Tepe, in this modern-day country, is the site of the world's earliest known monumental constructions | Turkey | 61%
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c. 10,000 BC | This 6 meter long South American animal goes extinct, with evidence of human hunting | Giant {sloth} | 51%
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c. 153,000 BC | This woman is born, the latest common ancestor of all humans alive today | Mitochondrial {Eve} | 45%
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