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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 400,000 years ago.
(b) 4 million years ago.
(c) 4000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

2. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

3. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A full script.
(b) A court of law.
(c) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.
(d) An imagined community.

4. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(b) To have his own bone broken.
(c) To have his eye cast out.
(d) To have his hand cut off.

5. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 9,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

2. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

3. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

4. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?

5. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?

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