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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. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
2. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?
3. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
4. Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe adopted crops and agriculture from where?
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. Why did plant domestication and food production did not develop earlier in some of the ecologically better areas?
2. Why did Australia not develop writing or complex societies as early as other groups, according to Diamond?
3. Why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important according to Diamond?
4. How does the shift to sedentary lifestyles change societies?
5. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?
6. What are the four different types of societies that Diamond discusses?
7. What is Diamond's objective in studying the societies of Polynesia?
8. Fourteen species of large mammals were domesticated. Why weren't other species?
9. What are the three basic strategies for writing systems?
10. What are the four linguistic families found in China?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why did the societies in New Guinea and Australia develop at different times? What differences were present between these areas?
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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