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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?
(a) They were better nourished
(b) They worked fewer hours
(c) They died younger
(d) They had fewer diseases

2. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Horses
(b) Dogs
(c) Yaks
(d) Lions

3. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(b) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
(c) The conquest of Europe by Asians
(d) The conquest of Australia by Europeans

4. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) The development of water going crafts
(b) Humans arriving in North America
(c) The first use of stone tools
(d) The first Home Sapiens

5. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Maori
(b) Australian Aborigines
(c) British
(d) Indonesians

6. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?
(a) Western Europe
(b) North America
(c) The Arctic Circle
(d) Warm climates

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

8. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?
(a) They had longer growing periods before harvest.
(b) They were too easy to cultivate.
(c) Their production was low.
(d) They were rare.

9. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Socrates
(b) Tutankhamen
(c) Jesus
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

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

11. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?
(a) Asia
(b) Any of them could have developed most quickly
(c) North America
(d) Africa

12. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?
(a) Priest
(b) Gatherer
(c) Hunter
(d) Farmer

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

14. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Dangerous
(b) Calm
(c) Wild
(d) Nervous

15. What factor meant that population could grow?
(a) A nomadic lifestyle
(b) The availability of shelter materials
(c) Fewer natural predators
(d) The availability of more consumable calories

Short Answer Questions

1. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?

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

3. When did independent food production begin?

4. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

5. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?

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