1. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 2 trillion dollars.
(b) 250 billion dollars.
(c) 100 billion dollars.
(d) 20 billion dollars.

2. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(b) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(c) The imagined order is subjective.
(d) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.

3. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Letters.
(b) Geographical information.
(c) Topographical information.
(d) Numbers.

4. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1522.
(d) 1620.

5. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 240 BC.
(b) 1139 BC.
(c) 120 BC.
(d) 640 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?

2. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?

3. The people of what country invented gunpowder?

4. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?

5. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?

(see the answer key)

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