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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. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) Large populations
(b) The ability to store food
(c) The ability to conquer other groups
(d) A capitalist society

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

3. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The cold climate
(b) The availability of metals
(c) The amount of sunlight
(d) The absence of germs

4. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?
(a) Many Spanish died from the diseases.
(b) Many Incas died as a result of them.
(c) The Spanish horses were left weak.
(d) A smallpox vaccine was invented to save the Incas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?

2. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

3. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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