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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 "Hemispheres Colliding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the smallest societies known as?
(a) Chiefdoms
(b) Bands
(c) States
(d) Tribes

2. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?
(a) Access to water
(b) Fertilizer for other plants
(c) Meat
(d) Power

3. Why did the developments occur later in the Americas that in Europe?
(a) Humans had lived in Europe longer
(b) The Americas had more large mammals available
(c) Eurasia had fewer wild plants suitable for domestication
(d) The Americas were less isolated

4. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?
(a) Areas not fit for food production
(b) Areas where natural resources are abundant
(c) Areas with lots of water
(d) Areas near the equator

5. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decrease in the population
(b) The decline of wild foods
(c) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(d) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

2. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

3. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

4. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

5. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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