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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?
(a) Stones
(b) Wooden clubs
(c) Steel swords
(d) Sling shots

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

4. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?
(a) The ice age
(b) Humans killed or indirectly eliminated them.
(c) A large large comet hit the earth.
(d) Germs introduced by humans

5. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?
(a) Power
(b) Fertilizer for other plants
(c) Access to water
(d) Meat

6. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
(a) Complicates race relations
(b) Justifies the domination
(c) Creates more questions
(d) Makes individuals mad

7. Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe adopted crops and agriculture from where?
(a) Southwestern Asia
(b) Africa
(c) China
(d) North America

8. Where did the Maori live?
(a) New Zealand
(b) Easter Island
(c) Tazmania
(d) Hawaii

9. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?
(a) Many of the Spanish died from influenza
(b) The Incas fled to Peru
(c) The Incas killed all the Spanish soldiers
(d) The Spanish conquered and enslaved the Incas

10. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Polynesia
(b) Chile
(c) Southwestern Australia
(d) Western Europe

11. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) Africa
(b) Japan
(c) New Guinea
(d) South America

12. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?
(a) There were no tools for food production
(b) Wild animals were widely available
(c) Wild plants were not available
(d) People were involved in creating weapons

13. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Many places
(b) Only one
(c) A few
(d) Only one place on each continent

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

15. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?
(a) Based on historical evidence
(b) A scientific guess
(c) True in all areas
(d) A misconception

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?

2. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?

3. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

4. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?

5. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

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