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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Larger populations created the need for which of the following?
(a) A writing system beyond the alphabet
(b) Decentralized food production
(c) More nomadic populations who wouldn't compete for resources
(d) A more complex, centralized government

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

5. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Sparser societies
(b) Increased hunger
(c) Denser human populations
(d) Less warfare

Short Answer Questions

1. About what time did food production begin in the United States?

2. Most domesticated mammals have been what?

3. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?

4. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?

5. What was the importance of a written language?

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