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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. Plants like olives, figs and dates were domesticated around what time?

2. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?

3. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

4. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

5. Why were domesticated plants able to spread from the Fertile Crescent to nearby areas more easily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is surprising about where food production developed early?

2. Where did food production develop independently?

3. What are the four linguistic families found in China?

4. What made the spread of Austronesian culture possible?

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

6. What is one other explanation (different than Diamond's) to explain the uneven distribution of wealth and power.

7. What are the four stages in how diseases are transferred from animals to humans?

8. Why did the developments happen later in the Americas than in Eurasia?

9. What misconceptions exist about the transition from hunter-gatherers to food producers?

10. What advantages did the Spanish have over the Incas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the axis of a continent important? Use one continent to show how its axis is either an advantage or a disadvantage.

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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