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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was early writing used for primarily?
2. What is human's slowest defense against germs?
3. Recent research shows that modern Japanese people resulted from an agricultural expansion from where?
4. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?
5. Recent research shows that crops from Mexico spread into eastern North America via an indirect route through where?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why did the societies in New Guinea and Australia develop at different times? What differences were present between these areas?
Essay Topic 2
How would you answer Yali's question: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Do you think that Diamond missed any aspects in his answer to Yali's question?
Essay Topic 3
Why is the axis of a continent important? Use one continent to show how its axis is either an advantage or a disadvantage.
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