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The oldest traces of Homo sapiens are found on…

Africa

What artistic legacy did early humans leave behinds?

Etchings and bone carvings, cave paintings, and flutes made from bone

What was the FIRST continent humans travelled to outside Africa?

Asia

Humans arrived on Asia how many years ago?

80,000 to 60,000

When did humans reach Europe?

40,000 years ago

When did the Neanderthals go extinct?

25,000 years ago

When did humans land in North America?

15,000 years ago

In what order did humans populate teh continents?

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

When did humans domesticate horses?

4,000-5,000 BCE

When did humans domesticate camels?

2,000 BCE

What journalist decided to travel the journey of Homo sapiens from Africa to South America by foot?

Paul Salopek

When did Salopek start his journey?

January 2013

How long is Salopek’s journey?

24,000 miles

Where did Salopek start his journey?

Herto Bouri, Ethiopia

What is the earliest “human'“ subspecies remains?

Homo sapiens idaltu

What is the name of the oldest “human” fossil?

Herto man

How old is the Herto man?

160,000 years

Where will Salopek’s journey end?

Tierra del Fuego

What does Salopek call his joruney?

Out of Eden Walk

Salopek originally though the journey would take ___ years

7

How much distance (as of 2025) does Salopek have left?

Over half

What became the niockname for camels?

Ships of the desert

Camels were most commonly used in….

First millennium CE

When was the wheel invented?

3,500 BCE-3,350 BCE

What are the earliest evidence(s) of the wheel?

Images of wagons on clay tablets in Uruk, wagon ruts in Flintbek, and depictions of a wheeled vehcicle on a pot in Bronocice

Where is Uruk?

Iraq

Where is Flintbek?

Northern Germany

Where is Bronocice?

Southern Poland

Who is known for riding the first early bicyccle?

Aristocrat Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun

When was de Sauerbrunn seen riding a bike and where?

June 12,1817, Mannheim, Germany

How far did Baron de Sauerbrun travel in one hour?

14km (8.7 miles)

What did Baron von Drais call his “bike”?

Laufmaschine (running machine)

What did Baron von Drais’ invention come to be known as?

Draisine or dandyhorse

Who invented “pedals” for the dandyhorse and when?

Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillian, 1839

Who invented the velocipede and when?

Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement, late 1860s

What does velocipede mean?

Fast feet

What nickname was the velocipede given?

Boneshaker

When was the “high-wheel” bike developed?

1870s

What was the “high-wheel” biike nicknamed?

Penny-farthing

What were the sixes of each wheel in the high-wheeler design?

Front-five feet, back=16 inches

About how large is the modern bicycle tire?

2.5 feet

What bad nickname did the high-wheeler get?

Widow-maker

Falls of the penny-farthing became known as…

Taking a header

When was the “safety” bicycle made?

Mid-1880s

Who invented the first commercially successful safety bike and when?

British inventor John Kemp Starley, 1885

What did John Starley call his bike?

The rover

When did rubber tires replace the iron or wooden ones on the rover?

1890s

By the end of the 19th century, how many people had joined the League of American Wheelmen?

100,000

When did tandem bikes begin to appear?

1880s

Who FIRST imagined the Tandem bike?

Baron von Drais