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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.
(b) An imagined community.
(c) A full script.
(d) A court of law.

2. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Asia.
(b) America.
(c) Africa.
(d) Australia.

3. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Gods.
(b) Myths.
(c) Danger alert systems.
(d) Legends.

4. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?
(a) 865.
(b) 1,225.
(c) 2,220.
(d) 6,230.

5. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) Tens of thousands of years.
(d) 10,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?

3. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

4. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

5. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

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