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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "From Egalitarian to Kleptocracy".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is human's slowest defense against germs?
(a) Natural selection
(b) Sanitation
(c) Vaccines
(d) Antibiotics

2. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) Africa
(b) Japan
(c) New Guinea
(d) South America

3. Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe adopted crops and agriculture from where?
(a) Southwestern Asia
(b) Africa
(c) China
(d) North America

4. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
(a) The creation of metal tools
(b) The spread of illnesses
(c) The domination of Western Europe
(d) The different rates of human development

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?

2. Where did technology grow the fastest according to Diamond?

3. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?

4. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?

5. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

(see the answer key)

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