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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had an advantage over many of the African societies?
(a) Congolese
(b) Bantu
(c) Pygmies
(d) Khoisans

3. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?
(a) 20th
(b) 18th
(c) 14th
(d) 1st

4. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?
(a) Austronesians
(b) Europeans
(c) Indians
(d) Native Americans

5. The Americas have what type of axis?
(a) North-South
(b) Northwest-Southeast
(c) Northeast-Southwest
(d) East-West

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?

2. The main killers in Africa and the Americas came from where?

3. There has been some discussion of how Diamond's work might apply where?

4. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?

5. Why did the developments occur later in the Americas that in Europe?

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