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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 importance of a written language?
(a) People could communicate with each other.
(b) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(c) Information could be spread more rapidly.
(d) Laws could be known by everyone.

2. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
(a) Ethnicity
(b) Norms
(c) Intelligence
(d) Race

3. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?
(a) They were not able to be stored
(b) They were already edible
(c) They grew slowly
(d) They gave low yields in the wild

4. What was needed for a society to become involved in food production?
(a) An abundance of wild game
(b) A natural disaster
(c) Some type of fruit tree
(d) Several species of plants that could be domesticated

5. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.
(b) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(c) They practiced better sanitation.
(d) They had already acquired immunity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?

2. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?

3. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

4. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?

5. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?

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