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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. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
(a) Creates more questions
(b) Justifies the domination
(c) Makes individuals mad
(d) Complicates race relations

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

3. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) The first use of stone tools
(b) Humans arriving in North America
(c) The development of water going crafts
(d) The first Home Sapiens

4. When did the history of humans begin?
(a) 15 million years ago
(b) 1 million years ago
(c) 2 thousand years ago
(d) 7 million years ago

5. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
(b) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(c) Steel production
(d) A resistance to disease

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?

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

3. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

4. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?

5. The Maori had what type of population?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the changes that have occurred in plants because of domestication?

3. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?

4. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?

5. What is surprising about where food production developed early?

6. What are the four different types of societies that Diamond discusses?

7. Why did Australia not develop writing or complex societies as early as other groups, according to Diamond?

8. How is climate used as an explanation for the uneven distribution of wealth and power?

9. How do inventions spread between societies?

10. What was the biggest difference between the histories of Old World Europe and the New World Americas? Why was this important?

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