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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 one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of water
(b) Advantages of steel
(c) Advantages of youth
(d) Advantages of seeds

2. Governments that distribute wealth from commoners to the upper classes are known as what?
(a) Monarchies
(b) Democracies
(c) Kleptocracies
(d) Oligarchies

3. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By moving to an area that no one wanted
(b) By giving in when challenged
(c) By choosing not to develop weapons
(d) By renouncing war

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

5. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(b) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(c) The decrease in the population
(d) The decline of wild foods

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a disease that killed large number of peoples in the Americas?

2. What invention sped up the spread of plants and technologies in Polynesia?

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

4. Diamond argues that a science of what should be developed?

5. The language that did most of the conquering or "engulfing" in Africa was which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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