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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not a disease that killed large number of peoples in the Americas?
(a) Influenza
(b) Measles
(c) Ringworm
(d) Smallpox

2. Which type of society uses a monopoly of force?
(a) States
(b) Chiefdoms
(c) Bands
(d) Tribes

3. What is human's slowest defense against germs?
(a) Vaccines
(b) Natural selection
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Sanitation

4. Why did the developments occur later in the Americas that in Europe?
(a) The Americas were less isolated
(b) The Americas had more large mammals available
(c) Eurasia had fewer wild plants suitable for domestication
(d) Humans had lived in Europe longer

5. How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 10
(d) 0

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Australians not develop writing, more complex technologies, or more complex societies?

2. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?

3. What invention sped up the spread of plants and technologies in Polynesia?

4. Diseases that become epidemics infect which group?

5. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?

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