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title: How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 61 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 61 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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lol my tribe got farming on turn 5, real life is the same innit

- **1.** Nah, farming only came about 500 years ago with the Romans — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Yeah, and the wheel came on turn 1 too, that's just how it went — no support
- **3.** No, real people hunted and gathered for nearly 300,000 years first — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, farming came pretty much right after people did, like day one — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 6: «People like us have lived for about 300,000 years; farming began only about 12,000 years ago, first in the Middle East.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «farming» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Ethan's mate swears one caveman rubbed two sticks and boom, fire. Sus?

- **1.** No, it's true, but it was a Roman, not a caveman — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, many groups slowly learned to keep and use fire — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, coz fire was really invented by the first farmers — no support
- **4.** No, legit, his name is written down in old books — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. What is wrong?

- **1.** Millions of years separate the dinosaurs and people — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Only the small dinosaurs were really ridden by people — no support
- **3.** The cavemen should be riding the flying dinosaurs — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Nothing at all: people and dinosaurs lived together — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 5: «Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+3); the same doer «cartoon cavemen» (+3); the same thing acted on «dinosaurs» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Zara asks: so one day everyone switched to bronze?

- **1.** No, bronze came after iron everywhere in the world — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, on a day that every king in the world agreed on — no support
- **3.** Yes, all at once, everywhere, in the year 1000 AD — no support
- **4.** No, metals came at different times in different places — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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«Why do the old years count down, innit weird?» asks Elif. Why?

- **1.** Because the ancient people just counted their years wrongly — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Because time really did run backwards in those days — no support
- **3.** Because the old kings liked having bigger numbers — no support
- **4.** Years before the birth of Jesus are counted backwards — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 1: «In 2004 a presidential election was falsified, and hundreds of thousands of people in orange scarves stood peacefully on Kyiv's Maidan, the main square, until…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «count» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Grandad Bill says he had no internet as a kid. So was he a knight?

- **1.** No, he had TV, cars and planes, just no internet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, the olden days had no machines — no support
- **3.** No, he had smartphones too — no support
- **4.** Yes, he lived in a castle — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Ruby sees farmers' skeletons are shorter than hunters'. What does this show?

- **1.** Farmers were a different animal from the hunters — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hunters were taller because they ate only meat and sweets — no support
- **3.** A big step can help the group and be hard on each person — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Farming made everyone healthier, taller and stronger at once — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Kai's friend says everyone copied farming from Mesopotamia. What would Kai say?

- **1.** Correct, nobody else on Earth ever thought of planting seeds — no support
- **2.** Nah, everyone copied farming from the Romans, not Mesopotamia — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Nah, at least half a dozen peoples started farming on their own — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, farming came first from Australia and spread from there — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 4: «When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had to farm. Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «farm» (+3); the same doer «everyone» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What would have happened if farming had never begun?

- **1.** Dinosaurs would still be alive and ruling Earth — no support
- **2.** More people than today, all of them hunters — no support
- **3.** Exactly the same number of cities as today — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Far fewer people, and no big towns or cities — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 11: «The first farmers were often shorter, had worse teeth and caught more illnesses than hunters, but farming fed many more people from the same land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «many more people» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Danylo's cousin: «history only goes up, every age is better, facts». Cap?

- **1.** No cap, every single age is always better than the one before — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cap; every age is always worse than the one that came before — no support
- **3.** No cap, nothing ever really changes from one age to another — no support
- **4.** Cap; progress can go backwards in some places for a while — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. Better guess?

- **1.** Exactly one billion, so Finn is right — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Eight billion, about the same as there are now — no support
- **3.** A few million, about one big city today — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Only about fifty people in the whole world — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t11/)

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### Test 12 · right ✓ {#t12}

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Aisha's dad says people first talked «before WhatsApp». What is the honest answer?

- **1.** Nobody knows exactly; spoken words leave no bones or stones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** When writing was invented, because speech came from letters — no support
- **3.** Exactly in 3000 BC, as the Egyptian records clearly show — no support
- **4.** Only in the last 2,000 years, after the Roman Empire — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 10: «Nobody knows exactly when people began to talk; many scientists think full language is at least 100,000 years old, and it is still argued about.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nobody» (+5); the same action «know» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern humans have existed.

- **1.** Approximately four and a half billion years — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Approximately three hundred thousand years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Approximately six thousand years — no support
- **4.** Approximately two thousand years — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the origins of agriculture?

- **1.** Agriculture arose independently in several regions of the world — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Agriculture preceded the earliest use of fire — no support
- **3.** Agriculture was introduced by the Roman Empire — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Agriculture was devised in Mesopotamia and copied by all others — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 1: «About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and started planting seeds and keeping animals near home: they became farmers.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «people» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.

- **1.** They are classifications devised by historians, occurring at differing times in differing regions — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They were proclaimed by decree of ancient monarchs — no support
- **3.** They succeeded one another everywhere in the year one thousand — no support
- **4.** They commenced simultaneously throughout the world, by the general agreement of all peoples — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the approximate population of the world at the commencement of agriculture.

- **1.** A few million persons — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Approximately eight billion persons — no support
- **3.** Approximately fifty persons — no support
- **4.** Approximately one billion persons — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/e4/)

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