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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?
2. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?
3. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
4. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
5. Independent food production began in how many places?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?
2. Why does Diamond believe that a shift in climate is not the best explanation for the mass extinctions of animals?
3. What was the development of humans like before the Great Leap Forward?
4. How is climate used as an explanation for the uneven distribution of wealth and power?
5. Infectious diseases that become epidemics tend to share what characteristics?
6. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?
7. The expansion of humans had what effect on the natural world?
8. What are the four stages in how diseases are transferred from animals to humans?
9. How did leaders of kleptocracies gain support for their systems?
10. What happened in the encounter between the Incas and the Spanish?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What advantages did writing give a society? What was early writing typically used for? Using an example, show how writing gave one society an advantage over another.
Essay Topic 2
How would you answer Yali's question: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Do you think that Diamond missed any aspects in his answer to Yali's question?
Essay Topic 3
How does Diamond explain the extinction of many large mammals around the world? What other theories have been proposed to explain this? Why does Diamond believe that these theories are not correct?
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