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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "How China Became Chinese".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(b) A resistance to disease
(c) Steel production
(d) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques

2. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) Different climates
(b) Similar climates
(c) Areas of farmland
(d) The domestication of animals

3. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?
(a) Extra-continent
(b) Neo-continent
(c) Intra-continent
(d) Inter-continent

4. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?
(a) Greenland
(b) Southwest Asia
(c) The Americas
(d) Africa

5. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(b) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 to 100 B.C.
(d) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many "little" languages does China have?

2. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?

3. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?

4. How do archeologists date food production?

5. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?

(see the answer key)

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