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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the first ice age

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second one was pretty good too but the sequel's number is grade of the original [Man on stage with woolly mammoth]

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right so what we will say they're both some of mr. Romano's finest work

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here's today's question the rise of urbanization first occurred as a result

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of the what and here are your potential answers.....

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........ah urbanization that thing for which you

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can thank your iPhone your Xbox and you know commute traffic and lucky us [Man checks phone and xbox appears]

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so what caused this extremely influential phenomenon well science

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tells us that the first Ice Age occurred during the Cenozoic era some 2.5 billion

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years ago which is roughly two point four nine billion years earlier than the [Cave man walking on glacier]

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appearance of early homo sapien which reminds us of that old saying if an

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iphone rings in the forest when there's no human around to hear it well you get [iPhone ringing in the forest]

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to do anyway that eliminates interest let's take a look at D the invention of

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industrial machinery well prompted by the invention of the [Steam trains appear]

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steam engine in 1712 the Industrial Revolution took place in the 18th

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century and influenced the invention of the modern-day automobile almost a

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hundred years later we still don't know how that hasn't led us down the [Flying car in the sky]

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inevitable path towards flying cars but well regardless

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neither the invention of industrial machinery nor the rise of the personal

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automobile happened early enough in history to prompt urbanization so we can

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eliminate answers D ad E by by the discovery of animal bones and stone

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tools used by early man suggest that humans were hunting and gathering around [Man chasing pack of animals]

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1.9 million years ago some scientists suggest that if the shift towards a

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meat-based diet it sparked a big jump in our evolution others believe it was some [Man evolves into human today]

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giant monolith thing yes there and yes thing is a scientific term either way

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man was hunting and gathering way before there were cities or anything resemble [Tribe hunting]

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urbanization which means the correct answer is C urbanization first occurred

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as a result of the development of Agriculture the first cities arose in [Farms appear]

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the Fertile Crescent in what is now Iraq and Iran which has some clever naming

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because as you might have guessed the Crescent was pretty darn fertile because [Crescent crops appear]

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of its close proximity to the Euphrates River the soil surrounding the

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Mesopotamian city uhlook was extremely rich due to centuries of deposits this

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made it a popular city where the population could produce a surplus of [Man and woman carrying basket of crops]

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food and the first to experience urbanization that makes C the correct

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answer so the next time you find yourself flocking to a hot new [People cuing in line for restaurant]

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restaurant in your town remember that you're emulating an endeavor that

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mankind first undertook thousands and thousands of years ago now if only we [Caveman cooking]

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could honor their Yelp reviews [People using phones to write Yelp reviews]

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