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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 infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?
(a) Smallpox
(b) AIDS
(c) Ringworm
(d) Cancer

2. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
(a) Agriculture and metal tools
(b) Agriculture and education
(c) Technology and metal tools.
(d) Technology and education

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

4. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) The first use of stone tools
(b) The development of water going crafts
(c) The first Home Sapiens
(d) Humans arriving in North America

5. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By giving in when challenged
(b) By renouncing war
(c) By choosing not to develop weapons
(d) By moving to an area that no one wanted

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?

3. The Maori had what type of population?

4. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?

5. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

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