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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 crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?
(a) Teff
(b) Millet
(c) The coffee bean
(d) Manioc

2. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
(a) Lions
(b) Giant kangaroo
(c) Saber tooth tigers
(d) Wholly mammoth

3. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(b) Laws could be known by everyone.
(c) People could communicate with each other.
(d) Information could be spread more rapidly.

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

5. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?
(a) Gatherers
(b) Transient
(c) Sedentary
(d) Founder crops

Short Answer Questions

1. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?

2. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?

3. When did independent food production begin?

4. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?

5. Independent food production began in how many places?

(see the answer key)

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