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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(b) People could communicate with each other.
(c) Information could be spread more rapidly.
(d) Laws could be known by everyone.

2. When did the history of humans begin?
(a) 7 million years ago
(b) 1 million years ago
(c) 15 million years ago
(d) 2 thousand years ago

3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Culture
(b) Government
(c) Sets of domesticated plants
(d) Language

4. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
(a) The arrival of humans
(b) Climate change
(c) Killer bees
(d) Rapid diseases

5. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(b) The conquest of Australia by Europeans
(c) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
(d) The conquest of Europe by Asians

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?

3. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?

4. What weapon was used by the Incas?

5. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?

(see the answer key)

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