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From the Ted Talk by Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And it's humbling to remember that our species has, perhaps, been around for [150,000] years. The Neolithic rtoeulovin — which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed; the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the porse of the priesthood; we created hierarchy specialization surplus — is only 10,000 years ago. The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old. Now, that shallow history doesn't suggest to me that we have all the answers for all of the challenges that will cnroonft us in the ensuing millennia. When these myriad cultures of the wlord are asked the manineg of being hmuan, they respond with 10,000 different voices.
Open Cloze
And it's humbling to remember that our species has, perhaps, been around for [150,000] years. The Neolithic __________ — which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed; the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the _____ of the priesthood; we created hierarchy specialization surplus — is only 10,000 years ago. The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old. Now, that shallow history doesn't suggest to me that we have all the answers for all of the challenges that will ________ us in the ensuing millennia. When these myriad cultures of the _____ are asked the _______ of being _____, they respond with 10,000 different voices.
Solution
- meaning
- world
- human
- prose
- revolution
- confront
Original Text
And it's humbling to remember that our species has, perhaps, been around for [150,000] years. The Neolithic Revolution — which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed; the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood; we created hierarchy specialization surplus — is only 10,000 years ago. The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old. Now, that shallow history doesn't suggest to me that we have all the answers for all of the challenges that will confront us in the ensuing millennia. When these myriad cultures of the world are asked the meaning of being human, they respond with 10,000 different voices.
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