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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. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?
(a) The areas that they are in are frequented by Indonesian traders.
(b) They conquered the Sino-Tibetan speakers from 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
(c) Sino-Tibetan speakers replaced or absorbed the other language areas.
(d) Scholars kept the language families alive in the monasteries.

2. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(b) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000

3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Culture
(b) Sets of domesticated plants
(c) Government
(d) Language

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

5. How are historical sciences different from non-historical sciences?
(a) Historical sciences are less complicated with prediction
(b) Historical sciences more concerned with proximate and ultimate causes
(c) Historical sciences have fewer
(d) Historical sicences have an easier time with finding cause and effect

Short Answer Questions

1. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?

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

3. The Americas have what type of axis?

4. According to Diamond, why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important?

5. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?

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