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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?
(a) Many of the Spanish died from influenza
(b) The Incas fled to Peru
(c) The Incas killed all the Spanish soldiers
(d) The Spanish conquered and enslaved the Incas

2. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?
(a) The Spanish horses were left weak.
(b) Many Spanish died from the diseases.
(c) A smallpox vaccine was invented to save the Incas.
(d) Many Incas died as a result of them.

3. Thirteen of the fourteen large domesticated mammals are native to which area?
(a) Africa
(b) Eurasia
(c) Australia
(d) The Americas

4. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
(a) Historical
(b) Imaginative
(c) Biological
(d) Monetary

5. Plants like olives, figs and dates were domesticated around what time?
(a) 8,000 B.C.
(b) 1,000 B.C.
(c) 4,000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the importance of a written language?

3. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?

4. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?

5. Wild almonds are what?

(see the answer key)

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