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

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

3. Humans developed on what continent?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) Australia
(d) Africa

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon was used by the Incas?

2. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

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

4. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Infectious diseases that become epidemics tend to share what characteristics?

2. Why did infectious diseases give some groups an advantage over others?

3. Did hunter-gatherers adopt the crops and agriculture from neighboring groups or did invaders bring with them the knowledge and crops?

4. What are the three basic strategies for writing systems?

5. How is the production of food related to the advantages of guns, germs, and steel?

6. Why did the developments happen later in the Americas than in Eurasia?

7. How did humans choose which plants to begin domesticating?

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

9. How does food production relate to a greater population?

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

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