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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. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

2. Which mammal did the Spanish have that the Incas did not?

3. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?

4. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?

5. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

2. What advantages did the Bantu have over other African groups?

3. How do historical sciences differ from non-historical sciences?

4. What is one new piece of information that has come to light since Diamond's work was first published?

5. Why did Australia not develop writing or complex societies as early as other groups, according to Diamond?

6. What advantages did the Fertile Crescent have in domesticating plants?

7. What was the development of humans like before the Great Leap Forward?

8. How did the ability to use domesticated plants and animals differentiate the Polynesian societies?

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

10. How did the domestication of animals give some societies an advantage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes some large mammals able to be domesticated and others unable? What large mammals have been domesticated? What advantages do they give to societies?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why do large mammals matter to Diamond's theory? Why is domestication important? What factors determine which large mammals are suitable to be domesticated?

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