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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. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The availability of metals
(b) The cold climate
(c) The absence of germs
(d) The amount of sunlight

2. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) Africa
(b) North America
(c) New Guinea
(d) Australia

3. What weapon was used by the Incas?
(a) Steel swords
(b) Wooden clubs
(c) Iron plated ships
(d) Rifles

4. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?
(a) Many of the Spanish died from influenza
(b) The Incas fled to Peru
(c) The Incas killed all the Spanish soldiers
(d) The Spanish conquered and enslaved the Incas

5. Most domesticated mammals have been what?
(a) Tactivores
(b) Herbivores
(c) Omnivores
(d) Carnivores

Short Answer Questions

1. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

2. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?

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

4. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?

5. Which of these food items was domesticated most recently?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do inventions spread between societies?

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

5. Why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important according to Diamond?

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

7. Why was a north-south axis a disadvantage in the domestication of plants?

8. What is one other explanation (different than Diamond's) to explain the uneven distribution of wealth and power.

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

10. How are seeds dispersed?

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