Early human beings spent most of their time acquiring food by hunting animals and gathering plants. They had to constantly move in search for fresh supplies. They later learned how to plant and harvest food. This enabled them to live in one place. Then they learned how to tame and
care for animals. The sheep and goat were the first: the pig and cow came later. The search for food was an important factor in the way early
humans lived.
What did early humans have to do in order to live in one place?
1. learn how to keep sheep and goats
2. learn how to care for pigs and cows
3. learn how to plant and harvest food
4. learn how to hunt animals

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.