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Answer the following briefly:

Discuss how the age of speculation made humans become conscious and knowledgeable.


Earlier humans lacked scientific knowledge and worshipped nature as god. The age of speculation made humans conscious and knowledgeable. They became curious and began thinking and asking questions about nature and the world around them. The scientific enquiry began with the renaissance movement in the 15th and 16th centuries. Scientific foundations were laid. Thus, in the course of evolution, humans understood as well as explained the world and universe.


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Find out the correct statement:

a) Among the great Apes, Orang-utan is genetically the closest to humans.


b) The ancestors to humans were called Hominins and their origins have been traced to Africa.


c) Flake is a small chip that has flaking on both sides.


d) Acheulian is the main block of stone from which small chips are flaked by using a hammer stone.


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Answer the following briefly:

Write a note on the impact of pastoralism on the prehistoric people in Tamil Nadu.


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Answer the following briefly:

Enumerate the distinctive characteristics of Neanderthals.