At 3:05, it says we crossed bodies of water to populate Oceania. How were we able to cross bodies of water 100,000 years ago?

I think that the figure is a little bit off. It's very likely that we didn't have the technology to cross oceans or anything, but instead, evidence suggests that we crossed shorted gaps of water instead. In that time, sea levels were much lower, causing more land to be exposed. It's likely that it was possible to get all the way to southern Indonesia by land. From there, early people probably used boats fashioned from tree trunks to cross the 100 or so km to get to Australia. Australia was settled sometime around 50,000 years ago, but we don't have evidence of early boats until much later.

At 3:50 why is the sun red

The sun is red because that was the type of art style that they used cause you gotta think they didn't have any other pigments back in their day like we do nowadays

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World History Project - Origins to the Present

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Physically modern humans evolved over a long time and alongside other, related species. Our ability to use and make tools gave our ancestors the ability to spread to new environments. Our ability to share information and produce symbols helped us to master those environments. Gradually, people populated almost the whole world. But populations remained small until the development of farming. Farming allowed us to produce more calories, feed more people, and eventually build villages and towns. Yet there is some evidence that early farmers had more difficult lives than foragers.

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