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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?
(a) Perpendicular
(b) Horizontal
(c) Parallel
(d) Vertical
2. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decrease in the population
(b) The decline of wild foods
(c) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(d) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Language
(b) Culture
(c) Government
(d) Sets of domesticated plants
4. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Australia by Europeans
(b) The conquest of Europe by Asians
(c) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(d) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
5. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?
(a) Asia
(b) North America
(c) Africa
(d) Any of them could have developed most quickly
6. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?
(a) Dates
(b) Wheat
(c) Fruit trees
(d) Olives
7. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Asiatic
(b) Historical
(c) Eurocentric
(d) Cultural
8. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By giving in when challenged
(b) By choosing not to develop weapons
(c) By moving to an area that no one wanted
(d) By renouncing war
9. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?
(a) The Americas
(b) Greenland
(c) Africa
(d) Southwest Asia
10. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Francisco Pizarro
(c) Ferdinand Magellan
(d) Christopher Columbus
11. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Many places
(b) Only one place on each continent
(c) Only one
(d) A few
12. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Domesticated animals
(b) Contaminated water
(c) Air-born organisms
(d) Dirt
13. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of steel
(b) Advantages of seeds
(c) Advantages of youth
(d) Advantages of water
14. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(b) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
15. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Sparser societies
(b) Denser human populations
(c) Less warfare
(d) Increased hunger
Short Answer Questions
1. What factor meant that population could grow?
2. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?
3. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
4. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
5. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
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