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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 weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?
(a) Stones
(b) Sling shots
(c) Wooden clubs
(d) Steel swords

2. Why was the first occupation of Australia important?
(a) It was the first occupation on any continent.
(b) It killed off the most large mammals.
(c) It was the biggest occupation on any continent.
(d) It required watercraft.

3. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?
(a) Weapons
(b) Greater intelligence
(c) Stored crop surpluses
(d) A capitalist society

4. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
(a) Intelligence
(b) Race
(c) Ethnicity
(d) Norms

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

2. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?

3. When did the history of humans begin?

4. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

5. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

(see the answer key)

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