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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
(a) Killer bees
(b) The arrival of humans
(c) Climate change
(d) Rapid diseases

4. 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

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

6. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?
(a) Horizontal
(b) Perpendicular
(c) Parallel
(d) Vertical

7. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?
(a) Areas where natural resources are abundant
(b) Areas with lots of water
(c) Areas not fit for food production
(d) Areas near the equator

8. The Maori had what type of population?
(a) Sparse
(b) Locally dense
(c) Decreasing
(d) Controlled

9. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Taxes
(b) Gas powered machinery
(c) Electricity
(d) Education

10. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Only one place on each continent
(b) Only one
(c) Many places
(d) A few

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

12. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
(a) The spread of illnesses
(b) The domination of Western Europe
(c) The creation of metal tools
(d) The different rates of human development

13. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?
(a) None
(b) Sheep
(c) Llama
(d) Pig

14. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?
(a) The development of stone tools
(b) The mass extinction of large mammals
(c) The disappearance of human ancestors
(d) The development of ocean going crafts

15. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?
(a) Cow
(b) Horse
(c) Reindeer
(d) Dog

Short Answer Questions

1. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?

2. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?

3. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?

4. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?

5. Some people have argued that those living in warm, humid climates were inhibited in their development by what?

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