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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. Wild almonds are what?
(a) Less bitter than domesticated
(b) Poisonous
(c) Healthier than domesticated
(d) Sweeter than domesticated

2. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?
(a) More difficult
(b) Longer
(c) Larger
(d) Shorter

3. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?
(a) Any of them could have developed most quickly
(b) Asia
(c) Africa
(d) North America

4. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?
(a) Areas not fit for food production
(b) Areas near the equator
(c) Areas with lots of water
(d) Areas where natural resources are abundant

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

2. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?

3. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

4. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

5. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did writing develop and what was it like?

5. What advantages did the Fertile Crescent have in domesticating plants?

6. How does the shift to sedentary lifestyles change societies?

7. How did leaders of kleptocracies gain support for their systems?

8. Why did societies in New Guinea and Australia develop differently?

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

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

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