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Victorian ____ is characterised by the full development of the Industrial Revolution.

England became the first ____ nation in the world and, by 1850, the first nation to have more people employed in industry than in agriculture.

Expanding trade coincided with the growth of the ____ and brought great wealth to Britain, but this wealth was not evenly distributed.

Many enterprising individuals (the ‘self-made men’) rose from ____ origins to positions of wealth and influence, but large sections of the working class were forced into the overcrowded slums of large cities where they worked long hours for low wages in unhealthy conditions.

The manufacturing towns of the north of England provided some of the worst examples and inspired such socially ____ novels as Kingsley’s Alton Locke, Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and Dickens’s Hard Times.

In the south there was London, already the largest city in the world, showing all the crime, evil, and misery which result from ____ and unplanned growth.

We learnt to cut wood and plough the earth once we had acquired the ability to attach a stone ____ to a wooden handle.

____ was abundant, but rare flint was needed for the tip.

In axes, raw and unrefined stone was replaced with flint in ____ 4000 BCE.

Found all over Europe, flint axes and knives were ____ in great quantities — about half a million every year.

But there were very few flint mines. ____ heads originating from one flint deposit in the Alps have been found all over Western Europe.

____ from central Poland have been discovered 800 kilometres away.

So the earliest human tool, the flint axe, already combined two types of raw material — the easily replaceable stick and the precious flint, which was handed down from one generation to ____, travelling huge distances on its way.

The ____ had to protect the sites where flint was found, and the first property rights developed.

Others had to produce something of value to exchange: a flock of ____, for example, or cured hides. This is how trade began.

Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling book Outliers, shows ____ only how a culture’s history can influence a child’s development and, thus, adult accomplishments, but also that such influences can extend back many generations and over different continents.

____ one’s ancestors make a living as independent farmers tending rice paddies, which required planning and persistent labor, or did they make a living as serfs growing potatoes, which required planting in the spring and harvesting in the fall, with little attention necessary in between?

Are you a descendant of farmers, whose crops were relatively immune to theft, or of ranchers, ____ livelihoods could be stolen from under one’s nose?

Were people born in a time of economic plenty or ____? Exceptional people (the “outliers” in the title of his book), Gladwell asserts, are not simply the product of hard work and native intelligence.

They are the result of the practices of their culture at a ____ time in history.

Although Gladwell never ____ Vygotsky or sociocultural theory, his book illustrates the importance of sociohistorical influences on development.

Seeing geography as a decisive factor in the course of human history can be construed as a bleak view of the world, which is why it is disliked in some ____ circles.

It suggests that nature is more powerful than ____ and that we can go only so far in determining our own fate.

However, other factors ____ have an influence on events, too.

Any sensible person can ____ that technology is now bending the iron rules of geography.

It has ____ ways over, under, or through some of the barriers.

The Americans can ____ fly a plane all the way from Missouri to Mosul on a bombing mission without needing to land to refuel.

That, along with their great aircraft carrier battle groups, means they no ____ absolutely have to have an ally or a colony in order to extend their global reach around the world.

Of course, if they do have an air base on the island of Diego Garcia, or permanent access to the port in ____, then they have more options; but it is less essential.