2. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) South America
(b) The Fertile Crescent
(c) Siberia
(d) The eastern edge of Canada

3. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?
(a) A government
(b) Goals
(c) Ancestors
(d) Weapons

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 the Americas by Europeans
(d) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans

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

6. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(b) Laws could be known by everyone.
(c) People could communicate with each other.
(d) Information could be spread more rapidly.

7. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
(a) Norms
(b) Race
(c) Intelligence
(d) Ethnicity

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

9. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.
(b) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(c) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.
(d) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.

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

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

12. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) Why domesticated animals became extinct
(b) How hunter-gathereres found food
(c) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production
(d) How ancient farmers domesticated plants

13. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?
(a) There were no large mammals available.
(b) People weren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
(c) The environment in the area was too poor for farming.
(d) There was some problem with the wild plants available.

14. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Emmer wheat
(b) Rice
(c) Chickpea
(d) Flax

15. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
(a) Francisco Pizarro
(b) Ferdinand Magellan
(c) Christopher Columbus
(d) Francis Drake