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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) New Guinea
(b) Africa
(c) North America
(d) Australia

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

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

4. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Dirt
(b) Contaminated water
(c) Air-born organisms
(d) Domesticated animals

5. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?
(a) The Americas
(b) Southwest Asia
(c) Africa
(d) Greenland

6. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?
(a) Trade with Europeans
(b) The tropical climate on all islands
(c) The closeness to North America
(d) The environment

7. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?
(a) Crops
(b) Esteem
(c) Animals
(d) Technologies

8. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?
(a) East-West
(b) Northeast-Southwest
(c) North-South
(d) North-West

9. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?
(a) Olives
(b) Wheat
(c) Fruit trees
(d) Dates

10. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?
(a) Collected wild food and raised cultivated ones
(b) Only raised cultivated crops
(c) Raised mainly cultivated crops
(d) Spent more time hunting than growing crops

11. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?
(a) There were many plants that could be domesticated.
(b) It was in the Mediterranean climate.
(c) The area was high in rainfall.
(d) The area had cool summers and dry winters.

12. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
(a) Technology and education
(b) Technology and metal tools.
(c) Agriculture and education
(d) Agriculture and metal tools

13. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How war can end if groups decide to stop
(b) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage
(c) How shared culture is important
(d) How environments shape societies

14. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(b) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 to 100 B.C.
(d) 8500 to 8000 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

2. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?

3. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?

4. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?

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

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