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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) 1000 BCE.
(b) 3000 BCE.
(c) 2000 BCE.
(d) 1500 BCE.

2. What word refers to a drinking horn in Ancient Greece?
(a) Cantharos.
(b) Krater.
(c) Cylix.
(d) Rhyton.

3. The earliest physical evidence of wine production comes from red residue in a pottery jar that has been dated to approximately what year?
(a) 690 BCE.
(b) 2300 BCE.
(c) 5400 BCE.
(d) 1200 BCE.

4. Approximately when did pottery emerge?
(a) 6000 BCE.
(b) 8000 BCE.
(c) 1000 BCE.
(d) 2000 BCE.

5. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Alexander the Great.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of Gastronomia?

2. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?

3. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

4. When did Rome sack the Greek colony of Syracuse?

5. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?

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