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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 Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
2. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?
3. What was the importance of a written language?
4. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?
5. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one other explanation (different than Diamond's) to explain the uneven distribution of wealth and power.
2. How do historical sciences differ from non-historical sciences?
3. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?
4. Why does Diamond believe that a shift in climate is not the best explanation for the mass extinctions of animals?
5. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?
6. Why were Europeans able to conquer Africans according to Diamond?
7. How did the ability to use domesticated plants and animals differentiate the Polynesian societies?
8. How did the domestication of animals give some societies an advantage?
9. What happened in the encounter between the Incas and the Spanish?
10. What made the spread of Austronesian culture possible?
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
What effect does population growth have on societies? What advantages did societies gain as their population grew?
Essay Topic 3
Choose one society on which to focus. Does this society have an advantage over others in terms of guns, germs, and steel? Explain why the society either had an advantage or why it was disadvantaged in relation to other groups.
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