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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 189.
(b) 276.
(c) 371.
(d) 48.

2. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Southern Mesopotamia.
(b) Eastern Greece.
(c) Northern Mesopotamia.
(d) Northern Rome.

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 1,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 2,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

4. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Croquet.

5. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 4 million years ago.
(b) 4000 years ago.
(c) 40,000 years ago.
(d) 400,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

2. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

3. History's first known money consisted of what material?

4. 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?

5. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

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