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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. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Plato.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Albert Einstein.

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 BC.
(b) 1352 BC.
(c) 1352 AD.
(d) 1776 AD.

3. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?
(a) The story of Golem.
(b) The story of the fox and the grapes.
(c) The story of The Tower of Babel.
(d) The story of Icarus.

4. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) South America.
(b) Australia.
(c) Africa.
(d) The Middle East.

5. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Beads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Colorful threads.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

2. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

3. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?

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

5. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?

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