The Stone Age - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
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%
c. 9700 BC	This "age" ends after global temperatures increase 10° Celsius from where they were in 20,000 B.C.	{Ice} Age	90%
c. 8000 BC	This crop, at the time resembling a tall grass, is first domesticated in modern-day Mexico	Maize	83%
c. 3400 BC	The earliest evidence of this Egyptian burial practice	Mummification	80%
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	77%
c. 33,000 BC	These close human relatives go extinct, with the last individuals living in modern-day Spain	Neanderthals	76%
c. 2 mil BC	This "upright man" species evolves in Africa, later spreading throughout Asia and Europe	Homo {erectus}	75%
c. 50,000 BC	Humans first arrive on this land mass, likely causing the extinction of the marsupial lion and many other megafauna	Australia	72%
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	71%
c. 10,000 BC	This later part of the Stone Age begins with the inventions described above	{Neo}lithic	67%
c. 3.3 mil BC	This earliest part of the Stone Age begins with the first use of stone tools by hominids	{Paleo}lithic	67%
c. 10,000 BC	This part of the world is the first have permanent cities and agriculture	{Fertile} Crescent	66%
c. 3300 BC	Prehistory ends and history begins with the invention of...	Written language	65%
c. 9000 BC	Rising sea levels cause this land bridge between Asia and North America to disappear	{Bering} Land Bridge	59%
c. 9500 BC	Göbekli Tepe, in this modern-day country, is the site of the world's earliest known monumental constructions	Turkey	59%
c. 10,000 BC	This 6 meter long South American animal goes extinct, with evidenceof human hunting	Giant {sloth}	50%
c. 153,000 BC	This woman is born, the latest common ancestor of all humans alive today	Mitochondrial {Eve}	42%

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