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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 was early writing used for primarily?
(a) Communicating with other societies
(b) Writing human history
(c) Journaling
(d) Accountings of things like sheep and wool

2. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) Areas of farmland
(b) Different climates
(c) Similar climates
(d) The domestication of animals

3. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Christopher Columbus
(c) Francisco Pizarro
(d) Ferdinand Magellan

4. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?
(a) The Cape region of South Africa
(b) The Pacific states in North America
(c) Iraq
(d) The Argentine pampas

5. Traditional arguments seeking to explain domination have often focused on what?
(a) Racial differences
(b) Height differences
(c) Brain size differences
(d) Monetary differences

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

2. Wild almonds are what?

3. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?

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

5. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?

(see the answer key)

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