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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(b) They had already acquired immunity.
(c) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.
(d) They practiced better sanitation.

2. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Calm
(b) Nervous
(c) Dangerous
(d) Wild

3. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Electricity
(b) Taxes
(c) Gas powered machinery
(d) Education

4. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of youth
(b) Advantages of water
(c) Advantages of seeds
(d) Advantages of steel

5. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?
(a) Reindeer
(b) Horse
(c) Cow
(d) Dog

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

2. What factor meant that population could grow?

3. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?

4. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?

5. Wild almonds are what?

(see the answer key)

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