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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By moving to an area that no one wanted
(b) By renouncing war
(c) By giving in when challenged
(d) By choosing not to develop weapons

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

3. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?
(a) The Incas killed all the Spanish soldiers
(b) The Incas fled to Peru
(c) The Spanish conquered and enslaved the Incas
(d) Many of the Spanish died from influenza

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

5. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of youth
(b) Advantages of water
(c) Advantages of seeds
(d) Advantages of steel

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

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

8. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 50,000 years ago
(b) 25,000 years ago
(c) 2,000 years ago
(d) 10,000 years ago

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

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

11. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Europe by Asians
(b) The conquest of Australia by Europeans
(c) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(d) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans

12. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Nervous
(b) Calm
(c) Dangerous
(d) Wild

13. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Historical
(b) Eurocentric
(c) Asiatic
(d) Cultural

14. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 2500 B.C.
(c) 5000 B.C.
(d) 8000 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?

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

3. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

4. The Maori had what type of population?

5. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

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