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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Electricity
(b) Taxes
(c) Gas powered machinery
(d) Education

2. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Denser human populations
(b) Less warfare
(c) Sparser societies
(d) Increased hunger

3. What factor meant that population could grow?
(a) A nomadic lifestyle
(b) Fewer natural predators
(c) The availability of more consumable calories
(d) The availability of shelter materials

4. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?
(a) By domesticating wild yaks
(b) By conquering the Spanish
(c) By acquiring Mexican crops
(d) By acquiring Canadian crops

5. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) The Fertile Crescent
(b) Siberia
(c) South America
(d) The eastern edge of Canada

Short Answer Questions

1. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?

2. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?

3. What was the importance of a written language?

4. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?

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

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