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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. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?
(a) Shorter
(b) Larger
(c) Longer
(d) More difficult

2. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Australian Aborigines
(b) Indonesians
(c) Maori
(d) British

3. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?
(a) Americans
(b) Eurasians
(c) Australians
(d) Africans

4. What are the smallest societies known as?
(a) Bands
(b) Tribes
(c) Chiefdoms
(d) States

5. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) Large populations
(b) The ability to store food
(c) A capitalist society
(d) The ability to conquer other groups

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?

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

3. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?

4. What is human's slowest defense against germs?

5. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?

(see the answer key)

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