Question: Maudlin argues that the passage of time is what kind of asymmetry?
Answer: intrinsic

Question: What grounds the distinction between sequences?
Answer: asymmetry

Question: Whose suggestion is difficult to assess in regards to the direction of time?
Answer: Maudlin

Question: Who started the discussion within analytic philosophy on the problem of the flow of time?
Answer: J. M. E. McTaggart

Question: How many "temporal series" did McTaggart propose?
Answer: two

Question: What was McTaggart's first series called?
Answer: the A-series

Question: The A-Series orders events according to their being in the past, present or future and in comparison to what else?
Answer: each other

Question: What is McTaggart's second series called?
Answer: The B-series

Question: According to what theory is time an ordering of various realities?
Answer: Presentism

Question: Presentism states that at a certain time some things do what?
Answer: exist

Question: Who believes that time is a dimension of reality on a par with the three spatial dimensions
Answer: Eternalist

Question: According to an Eternalist, what can be said to be just as real as things in the present?
Answer: all things—past, present, and future

Question: According to the Eternalist theory, what must we use to describe Homer?
Answer: special language

Question: How similar are the positions on the persistence of objects?
Answer: somewhat similar

Question: Who holds  that for an object to persist through time is for it to exist completely at different times?
Answer: endurantist

Question: Who holds for a thing to exist through time is for it to exist as a continuous reality?
Answer: perdurantist

Question: Which view is seen as conventional?
Answer: Endurantism

Question: Who is an example of a perdurantist?
Answer: David Lewis

Question: How can asymmetry of causation be observed?
Answer: in a non-arbitrary way

Question: How many features of asymmetry in the cup example can be viewed?
Answer: two

Question: Asymmetry is attributable to a relation of what kind of direction?
Answer: temporal

Question: What else, besides direction, is asymmetry attributable to?
Answer: implications of form and functional capacity

Question: What era is commonly known as the final phase of the Stone Age?
Answer: the Neolithic

Question: What era preceded the Neolithic?
Answer: Holocene Epipaleolithic period

Question: What event is associated with the start of farming?
Answer: Neolithic Revolution

Question: What era saw an increase in metal tool use?
Answer: Copper Age

Question: What time period marks the start of Neolithic culture?
Answer: 10,200 – 8,800 BC

Question: Where did the Neolithic culture begin?
Answer: Levant (Jericho, modern-day West Bank)

Question: What food item was the key to the evolution of farming?
Answer: wild cereals

Question: What era lasted between 12,000 and 10,200 BC?
Answer: The Natufian period

Question: What objects were not used by early farm societies in the Near East ?
Answer: pottery

Question: What did the use of pottery help early Japanese societies develop?
Answer: agriculture

Question: What trend led to parts of the world developing their own local Neolithic cultures?
Answer: independent domestication events

Question: When did the The Neolithic 1 (PPNA) period start?
Answer: roughly 10,000 years ago

Question: Where is the Göbekli Tepe temple located?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Who built the Göbekli Tepe temple?
Answer: nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes

Question: What is the name of earliest man made place of worship?
Answer: Göbekli Tepe

Question: When did the The Neolithic 2 (PPNB) era start?
Answer: around 8,800 BCE

Question: What era followed the  The Neolithic 2 (PPNB) era?
Answer: the Mesolithic era

Question: How many settlers were found in Jordan?
Answer: 3,000 inhabitants

Question: What is the name of one of the biggest prehistoric settlements in the Near East?
Answer: Ain Ghazal

Question: When did the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)  phase start?
Answer: Around 10,200 BC

Question: When was a settlement developed in Tell Qaramel?
Answer: Around 10,700 to 9,400 BC

Question: How many temples were built in Tell Qaramel?
Answer: 2

Question: What was the name of the town that first appeared during the PPNA?
Answer: Jericho

Question: What materials were used to build the wall around Jericho?
Answer: stone and marble

Question: What are the names of two researchers who divided neolithic chronology into ten periods?
Answer: Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche

Question: What traits did researchers use to divide the ten periods?
Answer: social, economic and cultural characteristics

Question: When was the original division of 10 advanced to a division of 5?
Answer: 2002

Question: What are the names of two researchers who divided neolithic chronology into five periods?
Answer: Danielle Stordeur and Frédéric Abbès

Question: When did the domestication of sheep first appear in Egypt?
Answer: 6,000 BC

Question: How did Egyptians gather food before raising livestock?
Answer: fishing, hunting, and the gathering of wild plants

Question: What region do some scholars see as the source for Egypt's start in agriculture?
Answer: the Middle East

Question: When did agrarian societies start to arise in Southeast Europe?
Answer: 7th millennium BC

Question: Where was one of earliest farming sites in Europe found?
Answer: Vashtëmi, southeastern Albania

Question: What type of sculptures were found in the Balkans from 6000 BC?
Answer: Anthropomorphic figurines

Question: What trend led to Neolithic traditions spreading to northwestern Europe by around 4500 BC? 
Answer: cultural diffusion and migration of peoples

Question: Who possibly created the earliest system of writing?
Answer: The Vinča culture

Question: When was the earliest known Asian farm site found in South Korea?
Answer: 2012

Question: What time period was the Korean farm site dated?
Answer: between 3600 and 3000 B.C.

Question: What items were found on the Korean farm site?
Answer: Pottery, stone projectile points, and possible houses

Question: What technology will researchers use to measure a more accurate time period for the farm site?
Answer: accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)

Question: What major trends appeared in Mesoamerica during 4500 BC?
Answer: crop domestication and sedentary lifestyles

Question: What term is used to describe the mid-late Neolithic era in American education?
Answer: Formative stage

Question: What term is used to describe the Early Neolithic era in American education?
Answer: Archaic Era

Question: What hunting weapon was found in the Southwestern US during  500 to 1200 C.E.?
Answer: bow and arrow

Question: What social groups were formed during the Neolithic age of Eurasia?
Answer: small tribes

Question: What cultural trend did not first appear in large amounts until the Bronze Age?
Answer: social stratification

Question: What type of cultures preceded Neolithic societies?
Answer: Paleolithic cultures

Question: What caused a major increase in social inequality?
Answer: domestication of large animals

Question: What started competition between families for wealth?
Answer: Possession of livestock

Question: Who was in possession of large herds that would produce more livestock?
Answer: Neolithic pastoralists

Question: What settlement featured equal sized homes with little evidence of capital?
Answer: Catal Huyuk

Question: What was the cultural aspect was the major center of life?
Answer: the household

Question: What time period were the huge circular ditches found in?
Answer: 4800 BC and 4600 BC

Question: What did the ditches later evolve into?
Answer: causewayed enclosures, burial mounds, and henge

Question: What features about the ditches suggests that it was built by people under a leader's command?
Answer: required considerable time and labour to construct

Question: Where was evidence of fortified settlements found?
Answer: Linearbandkeramik