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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 "Hemispheres Colliding".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was needed for a society to become involved in food production?
(a) A natural disaster
(b) Some type of fruit tree
(c) Several species of plants that could be domesticated
(d) An abundance of wild game

2. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 8000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 B.C.
(c) 5000 B.C.
(d) 2500 B.C.

3. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Domesticated animals
(b) Dirt
(c) Contaminated water
(d) Air-born organisms

4. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?
(a) New Guinea
(b) England
(c) Cuba
(d) Greenland

5. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) Africa
(b) North America
(c) New Guinea
(d) Australia

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?

2. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?

3. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

4. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

5. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?

(see the answer key)

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