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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. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1399.
(c) 1599.
(d) 1199.

2. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Greece.
(b) Chile.
(c) Italy.
(d) Mexico.

3. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?
(a) An unlimited appetite for power.
(b) A tyrannical leader.
(c) A significant number of distinct peoples being ruled.
(d) Flexible borders.

4. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
(a) 1 billion.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 900 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?

2. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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

4. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?

5. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?

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