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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. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
(a) Historical
(b) Imaginative
(c) Monetary
(d) Biological

2. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
(a) Creates more questions
(b) Makes individuals mad
(c) Justifies the domination
(d) Complicates race relations

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

4. What advantage did horses provide?
(a) They pulled the weapons faster than humans
(b) They were used as weapons
(c) More packing room
(d) Greater manueverability

5. Humans developed on what continent?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) Australia
(d) Africa

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

2. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?

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

4. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?

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

(see the answer key)

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