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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Horses
(b) Yaks
(c) Lions
(d) Dogs

4. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) The ability to store food
(b) Large populations
(c) A capitalist society
(d) The ability to conquer other groups

5. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Sparser societies
(b) Less warfare
(c) Denser human populations
(d) Increased hunger

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mammal did the Spanish have that the Incas did not?

2. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?

3. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?

4. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

5. Plants like olives, figs and dates were domesticated around what time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Diamond's objective in studying the societies of Polynesia?

2. Why did plant domestication and food production did not develop earlier in some of the ecologically better areas?

3. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

4. What was the greater Polynesian area like in terms of the environments available?

5. What advantages did the Bantu have over other African groups?

6. Why were Europeans able to conquer Africans according to Diamond?

7. How are seeds dispersed?

8. Why did Eurasia have an advantage in the domestication of animals?

9. Where did food production develop independently?

10. How did the domestication of animals give some societies an advantage?

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