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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 are the smallest societies known as?
(a) States
(b) Bands
(c) Tribes
(d) Chiefdoms

2. Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies?
(a) More physical work
(b) More nomadic lifestyles
(c) Fewer hours of labor each day
(d) Less physical demands

3. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) North America
(b) New Guinea
(c) Australia
(d) Africa

4. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 2500 B.C.
(c) 8000 B.C.
(d) 5000 B.C.

5. How many basic writing systems exist?
(a) 1
(b) 25
(c) 10
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

2. How many "little" languages does China have?

3. How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication?

4. What foods did people in the Americas depend on?

5. Humans developed on what continent?

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