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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the biggest difference between the histories of Old World Europe and the New World Americas?
(a) Denser populations
(b) More intelligent people
(c) The domestication of large mammals
(d) Sparser populations

2. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How shared culture is important
(b) How war can end if groups decide to stop
(c) How environments shape societies
(d) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage

3. What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides?
(a) The ability to rid a society of evil spirits
(b) Frameworks for unrelated individuals to live together without killing each other
(c) A way to redistribute money from the wealthy to the poor
(d) Organizing societies by biological race

4. What did not help the spread of the Austronesian culture?
(a) Better watercraft
(b) The lack of epidemics
(c) Superior tools and weapons
(d) Denser populations

5. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.
(b) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.
(c) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(d) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?

2. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?

3. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?

4. What gave Europeans an advantage in information about the groups they encountered?

5. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?

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