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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Australia and eastern Asia.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Only the continent of Australia.
(d) Most of Central America and parts of North America.

2. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?
(a) The Third Millennium BC.
(b) The First Millennium AD.
(c) The First Millennium BC.
(d) The Second Millennium BC.

3. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 5,000 years ago.
(c) 25,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

4. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Confucianism.
(d) Scientology.

5. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Intra-subjectivity.
(b) Inter-subjectivity.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Subjectivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

2. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?

3. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

4. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

5. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

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