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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?
(a) Only raised cultivated crops
(b) Collected wild food and raised cultivated ones
(c) Raised mainly cultivated crops
(d) Spent more time hunting than growing crops

3. What weapon was used by the Incas?
(a) Rifles
(b) Wooden clubs
(c) Steel swords
(d) Iron plated ships

4. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had already acquired immunity.
(b) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(c) They practiced better sanitation.
(d) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.

5. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 25,000 years ago
(b) 50,000 years ago
(c) 2,000 years ago
(d) 10,000 years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?

2. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?

3. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?

4. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?

5. All crops began as what?

(see the answer key)

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