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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. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?
(a) Spent more time hunting than growing crops
(b) Only raised cultivated crops
(c) Raised mainly cultivated crops
(d) Collected wild food and raised cultivated ones

2. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) Siberia
(b) The Fertile Crescent
(c) South America
(d) The eastern edge of Canada

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

4. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?
(a) Millet
(b) Manioc
(c) Teff
(d) The coffee bean

5. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?
(a) The Argentine pampas
(b) The Cape region of South Africa
(c) The Pacific states in North America
(d) Iraq

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

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

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

4. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?

5. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?

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