View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Governments that distribute wealth from commoners to the upper classes are known as what?

2. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?

3. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?

4. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?

5. How do inventions spread?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effect does population growth have on societies? What advantages did societies gain as their population grew?

Essay Topic 2

Why are some native, wild plants domesticated? Trace the development of domesticating plants, including identifying those wild plants that were among the first domesticated plants.

Essay Topic 3

Why weren't Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who conquered and killed Europeans and Asians? What factors lead to these groups being on the losing end rather than the winning one?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 184 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample