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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(b) They practiced better sanitation.
(c) They had already acquired immunity.
(d) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.

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

7. Most domesticated mammals have been what?
(a) Herbivores
(b) Tactivores
(c) Omnivores
(d) Carnivores

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

9. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The absence of germs
(b) The amount of sunlight
(c) The cold climate
(d) The availability of metals

10. All crops began as what?
(a) A foreign plant
(b) A native plant
(c) A domesticated plant
(d) A wild plant species

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

12. All people were once what?
(a) Wheat producers
(b) Immune to diseases
(c) Fiefdoms
(d) Hunters and gatherers

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

14. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?
(a) Cancer
(b) Smallpox
(c) AIDS
(d) Ringworm

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?

2. Traditional arguments seeking to explain domination have often focused on what?

3. About what time did food production begin in the United States?

4. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?

5. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?

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