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

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

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

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

5. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(b) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?

2. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?

3. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?

4. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Diamond believe that a shift in climate is not the best explanation for the mass extinctions of animals?

4. The expansion of humans had what effect on the natural world?

5. How did the ability to use domesticated plants and animals differentiate the Polynesian societies?

6. What misconceptions exist about the transition from hunter-gatherers to food producers?

7. Why was writing an advantage to the groups that had it?

8. Fourteen species of large mammals were domesticated. Why weren't other species?

9. What are some areas where food production didn't develop early on but the environment is ecologically suited to food production?

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

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