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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) Africa
(b) New Guinea
(c) Japan
(d) South America

2. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Australia by Europeans
(b) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
(c) The conquest of Europe by Asians
(d) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans

3. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) British
(b) Australian Aborigines
(c) Indonesians
(d) Maori

4. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(b) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(c) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
(d) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.

5. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The amount of sunlight
(b) The availability of metals
(c) The absence of germs
(d) The cold climate

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon was used by the Incas?

2. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

3. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

4. When did the history of humans begin?

5. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?

(see the answer key)

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