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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was early writing used for primarily?
(a) Communicating with other societies
(b) Writing human history
(c) Journaling
(d) Accountings of things like sheep and wool

2. Recent research shows that crops from Mexico spread into eastern North America via an indirect route through where?
(a) Peru
(b) The southwest
(c) Canada
(d) Australia

3. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?
(a) Too much rainfall to support domesticated plants
(b) The dry conditions on the continent
(c) Too many plants that could be domesticated
(d) Fertile soils

4. When was Diamond's work first published?
(a) 1956
(b) 1987
(c) 1997
(d) 1980

5. What foods did people in the Americas depend on?
(a) Protein-poor corn
(b) Protein-rich rice
(c) Protein-rich cows
(d) Protein-poor wheat

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a major infectious disease?

2. How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication?

3. What is a stone tool or implement that an individual used to pound the fibrous bark of some trees into material that could be used for ropes, nets, and clothing?

4. Which region had many of the same advantages as Eurasia?

5. How many "little" languages does China have?

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