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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. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Polynesia
(b) Southwestern Australia
(c) Western Europe
(d) Chile

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

3. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?
(a) 14
(b) 5
(c) 10
(d) 1

4. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Historical
(b) Cultural
(c) Asiatic
(d) Eurocentric

5. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Wild
(b) Dangerous
(c) Nervous
(d) Calm

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

2. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?

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

4. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

5. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?

(see the answer key)

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