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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. About what time did food production begin in the United States?
(a) 6,000 B.C.
(b) 8,000 B.C.
(c) 100 A.D.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

2. Where did writing develop?
(a) Europe
(b) China
(c) Mesopotamia
(d) Australia

3. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?
(a) Scientific analysis
(b) Trial and error
(c) Random choices
(d) Historical studies

4. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(b) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(c) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(d) 2,000 to 100 B.C.

5. Why is food production important for inventions?
(a) People had the energy to create.
(b) It allowed people to be nomadic and spread inventions.
(c) It allows for a sedentary life.
(d) People did not get diseases which stopped inventions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?

2. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?

3. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

4. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

5. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?

(see the answer key)

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