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

Short Answer Questions

1. What foods did people in the Americas depend on?

2. Diamond argues that European conquest of Africa had nothing to do with what?

3. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?

4. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?

5. Where did technology grow the fastest according to Diamond?

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

How did food production affect societies? What advantages did societies that had food production gain over societies that didn't?

Essay Topic 3

Why did the societies in New Guinea and Australia develop at different times? What differences were present between these areas?

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