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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Lions
(b) Dogs
(c) Horses
(d) Yaks

2. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?
(a) 3,000 B.C.
(b) 12,500 B.C.
(c) 100 B.C.
(d) 8,500 B.C.

3. What weapon was used by the Incas?
(a) Steel swords
(b) Iron plated ships
(c) Wooden clubs
(d) Rifles

4. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(b) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000

5. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) The ability to store food
(b) The ability to conquer other groups
(c) Large populations
(d) A capitalist society

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?

2. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

3. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?

4. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

5. Which mammal did the Spanish have that the Incas did not?

(see the answer key)

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